Power & Society Sayings
184 sayings found from the Contemporary era from 184 authors
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and terrorists, the more you control all the people.
His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open.
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
What the government wants is slaves.
And in what business is there not humbug?
Democracy is the best revenge.
A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game.
Systematically distorted communication is a form of power.
My chief task has been to conquer fear.
The rich are not just people who have money; they are people who have options.
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
I'm just a song and dance man, that's all. I'm not a preacher, I'm not a politician.
I'm not a politician. I'm an entertainer.
A strong spirit transcends rules.
I'm just a rebel. I'm not a rule-follower.
I'm a very strong-willed person. I know what I want, and I go after it.