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Best Power Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank you.' What's important…
- Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is…
- People are dangerous. If they're able to involve themselves in issues that matter, they may change the distribution of power, to the detriment of those…
- Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.
- See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.
- For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.
- People tend to rally around power.
- Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.
- There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable…
- If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in…
- The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a sense…
- Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.
- The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.
- The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
- Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance…
- Control is the source of strategic power.
- Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
- Palestinians have no wealth or power.
- Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.
More Power Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo