Paulo Freire Quotes

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

We live in a world where there's a culture of fear, where some leaders have a strong pull on people, which is exactly what Pennywise does.

You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk.

Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

Politics is the art of dominating men.

this monster, this Colossus of Despotism ... a deep laid scheme to enslave us.

Power is being able to affect the hegemony of existing systems.