Power Structures Quotes

“Traditional values and truths are often rooted in social conventions, dogmas, or power structures, so they need to be reexamined and redefined.
We can uncover deeper, perhaps unsettling truths about ourselves and the world by moving beyond conventional morality and perspectives. .("Behind the frosted glass”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion. Very often, the fear of total permanent war paralyzes the kind of morally oriented politics, which might engage our interests and our passions. We sense the cultural mediocrity around us-and in us-and we know that ours is a time when, within and between all the nations of the world, the levels of public sensibilities have sunk below sight; atrocity on a mass scale has become impersonal and official; moral indignation as a public fact has become extinct or made trivial.”
― C. Wright Mills, Letters and Autobiographical Writings

“Female power is the foundation of all other power structures. Social power systems that do not rest directly on instinct can never be more than superstructures. Their leaders can rule only in areas of no special value to sex partners and proteges. A system that disregards the power of the really powerful sex is doomed from the outset: it cannot gain adherents. It is by the power of the dominant sex that all systems function at all. Without the consent of women, there could have been no fascism, no imperialism, no Inquisition. Men could not have become the tools of such systems, had they not been ruled by women. Only a person attached and subservient to another through his basic social instincts - a man with a family to support, typically - can be sucked into the treadmill of such a secondary system and be driven to commit acts of hypocrisy, terror, and treason. The power of woman is the root of force in others.”
― Esther Vilar, The Polygamous Sex

“Demand the best from yourself and be totally unafraid to challenge entrenched interests and failed power structures.”
― Donald Trump

“We talk about creating an utopia, but we install an empire and we build our success on the back of the exploited.

We talk about equality, but we ignore the power structures that silence the voices of the less powerful.

We talk about meritocracy, but we only promote and care for those from the core planets.

We talk about science and rationality, but we pray to extinct gods and worship mutated humans.”
― Maya Darjani, Ancient as the Stars: A Space Opera Adventure

“The commitment within the person-centred approach [is] to dismantling the structural distribution of power within society.”
― David Murphy, Relational Depth: New Perspectives and Developments

“Dismantling a dictatorship is not easy, but it is a lot easier than holding one together.”
― Heather Marsh, How to Dismantle a Dictatorship

“Most people can see that dictators are not extraordinary people in any way, yet they are credited with single-handedly assembling and upholding tyrannies.”
― Heather Marsh, How to Dismantle a Dictatorship

“In reality, the way to topple a dictator is found within ourselves.”
― Heather Marsh, How to Dismantle a Dictatorship