Power Quote by Jeffrey D. Sachs

“Dominant people, it appears, use snap judgements and conform to received wisdom more than do the less dominant. Those who need power, and those…

— Margaret Heffernan

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

— Susan Sontag

“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of…

— Alexander von Humboldt

“The future of a society was not determined by the traits its members shared but rested entirely on their differences”

— Orhan Pamuk

“History tells us that inequality soars when societies develop.”

— Edward Luce

“What determines inequality among individuals within a single nation? Are there certain regularities that make inequality behave in a particular way as societies develop?”

— Branko Milanović

“They divided people into make-believe groups, arranged in a hierarchy. The upper levels enjoyed privileges and power, while the lower ones suffered from discrimination…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The dominance of [an ideology] is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the forms of…

— Nicos Poulantzas

If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit…

— Billy Bragg

“Being in the dominant group, where the culture matches our culture, tends to lead to not only advantage, but also conscious laziness.”

— Sara Taylor

“When people break through the abstractions and labels they often find themselves on the same side with their opposites, especially once the discussion gets…

— Ralph Nader

“people living in unequal societies spend more time worrying about how others see them.”

— Rutger Bregman