Power Quotes

"The body is not a thing that has agency, but an achievement of agency, always enacted in practice."

"The question of expertise is a question about who has the authority to speak and to decide."

"Agency is not something that someone has; it is not a possession. Agency is doing/being."

"Agency is the ongoing reconfiguring of possibilities within iteratively intra-acting phenomena."

"Agency belongs not to subjects but to intra-actions; it is the ongoing reconfiguring of possibilities within phenomena."

"The modern world promises liberation but delivers frantic servitude."

"Power is not something one possesses but something one does."

"We are all implicated in systems of power that we did not choose."

"Power operates through networks of connection, not through centralized control."

"Power is productive; it makes worlds, for better and for worse."

"Power relations are embedded in our most intimate relationships and knowledge practices."

"Power operates not only through repression but also through productivity and creation."

"Power is not something external that oppresses us but something we are always implicated in."

"Power relations are reproduced through language, representation, and symbolic systems."

"Power emerges from networks, not from individuals standing alone."

"The organization of knowledge reflects power relations and interests."

"The weak have their own forms of power through networks and alliances."

"Silence and invisibility are strategic positions in networks of power."

"Agency is distributed across networks, not concentrated in individual actors."

"Power operates not only through domination but through association and alliance."

"Power without principle is destructive."

"Power corrupts when unchecked."

"Shame is a tool of control."

"We must build power from the ground up."

"We have the power to reimagine our world."

"Actors are what is made to act by other actors, not autonomous agents"

"Power flows through networks; it is not possessed by individuals"

"Power is exercised not by domination but by the ability to enroll others"

"Power does not corrupt networks; networks constitute power through association"

"Language is power."