power
“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.”
“Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.”
“My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun —”
“Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.”
“A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve.”
“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.”
“To destroy the colonial world means nothing less than demolishing the colonist's sector, burying it deep within the earth or banishing it from the territory.”
“It is not that the beautiful totality of the individual is amputated, repressed, altered by our social order; it is rather that the individual is carefully fabricated in it, according to a whole technique of forces and bodies.”
“Discipline 'makes' individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise.”
“Our society is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance; under the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth.”
“My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.”
“Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere.”
“The soul is the prison of the body.”
“Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which is all the less easy to perceive in that it is everywhere and always.”
“The judges of normality are present everywhere.”
“Visibility is a trap.”
“Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere.”
“Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?”
“Power is like money. You can usually get it if you're competent and it's the only thing you want in life.”
“Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel that a world ruler is neither indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.”