Elizabeth Janeway Quotes About Power

Quotes about: Power

• We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Baby, Power, Long

• power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Change, Powerful, Fear

• Power is the ability not to have to please.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Inspirational, Memorable, Power

• The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Power, Ideas, Finance

  Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow

• Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Powerful, Differences, People

  Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow

• This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Powerful, Believe, Thinking

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