Power Quotes

Who has it, who wants it, and what happens when it's wielded wisely or poorly.

25234 quotes

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"Space is not a neutral container; it is actively produced and politically charged."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Power operates not only through repression but through production."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We are responsible for the worlds we help to create."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The future is not given but made through our actions."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We are responsible for imagining and creating our futures."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We are always already implicated in networks of power and meaning."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Agency is not a possession but a responsiveness."
Barad, Karen
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"Responsibility cannot be delegated or deferred."
Barad, Karen
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"Posthumanism opens new possibilities for thinking about power and resistance."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The body is political; it is a site of power struggles."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"We are shaped by structures we did not choose but can work to transform."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"We inherit both oppression and resistance; we can choose which to activate."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Touch is political; it is where intimacy and violence meet."
Puar, Jasbir
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"Power operates not just through prohibition but through the production of desire."
Puar, Jasbir
"There is a world of difference between understanding nature and commanding it."
Charles Darwin
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"Power operates most effectively when it appears invisible."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Power shared is power multiplied."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Power is productive, not merely repressive."
Haraway, Donna
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"Power operates through the production of knowledge."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The body is the site of both subjection and resistance."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We make the world through our bodily practices."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Biopower is not only about what crushes life, but also about what sustains it."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"We are always already implicated in systems of power and meaning."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"I came, I saw, I conquered"
Law, John
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"Power operates not only through coercion but through care."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Power is not external but constitutive of subjects."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Power is not something you have; it is something you do."
Haraway, Donna
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"Power that does not account for its effects on others is merely violence."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Power is most dangerous when those who hold it believe they do not."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Power is not only repressive; it is also productive and can generate new possibilities."
Braidotti, Rosi