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Power dynamics Quotes

"Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength."

"History is written by the people"

"No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to manage them in such a way as to convert them into special privileges"

"Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned."

"In framing a government, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself"

"Democracy in any meaningful sense of the term doesn't mean that citizens have the right to choose between two rich people who represent basically the same interests. "

"When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us."

"The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class"

"Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions"

"We control the world basically because we can cooperate better than any other animal"

"The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed"

"I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they are running the asylum"

"I have a thing about honesty; I think it's crucial to a relationship. Otherwise, one person holds all the power"

"You fondle my trigger then you blame my gun"

"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the definitions of the white world."

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