Power Quotes

"We are all potential revolutionaries if we would only recognize our power."

"Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere."

"The man described and analyzed with all the 'human' sciences is an effect of power."

"Knowledge is a matter of power relations."

"Power operates through bodies, not above them."

"Discourse is the power which is to be seized."

"Visibility is a trap."

"Things are made through power relations, not discovered."

"Resistance is created through the spaces of power."

"The soul is the effect of a certain technology of power."

"Power corrupts absolutely when unchecked by the people."

"Power rests upon the consent of those over whom it is exercised."

"Religion is the most violent of all forces."

"The love of ourselves is the most destructive when united with the love of power."

"The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism by the weapon."

"The state is nothing more than a machine for the suppression of one class by another."

"The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."

"The historical bloc which creates the conditions for the organic intellectual."

"The relationship between the subaltern group and the ruling group becomes mediated through ideology."

"Every man is a king in his own right when he acts consciously in history."

"The state is not just the government apparatus but extends through civil society institutions."

"Great men are almost always bad men."

"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it."

"A powerful nation need not be an aggressive one."

"The world respects power, but power must be exercised with restraint."

"Power without responsibility is the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages."

"The state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another."

"Despotism has a hard heart, and ambition is cruel."

"Those who control the means of production control the destiny of nations."

"The person who threatens the world is not the one who hates it, but the one who loves it."