Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The lion cares less about being king of the beasts than about finding his dinner. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
