Criticize Quote by Michel Foucault

It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear…

— Michel Foucault

“Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who,…

— Edward Crankshaw

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and…

— Henry A. Wallace

The basic problem is not political, it is apolitical and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately…

— Thomas Merton

The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and…

— Henry Clay

Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power

— Anonymous

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which…

— Jasmine Guy

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.

— Lierre Keith