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“Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.”

Kind Persons Form Power Groups Exercise Domination Manifold That One Person

Book:Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate

Source: Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate

“the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.”

Knows Men Order Powerful Power Groups Mystery Survival Regard Vices Discrimination Inequality Know Me Vice Versa

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.”

Hands Reality Class Power Groups Particular Perspective Prisms

Author:Sheila Rowbotham

“... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be.”

Matter Might Values Powerful Power Groups Honesty No Matter What

Book:Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

“... members of a powerful group are raised to believe (however illogically) that whatever affects it will also affect them. On theother hand, members of less powerful groups are raised to believe (however illogically) that each individual can escape the group's fate. Thus, cohesion is encouraged on the one hand, and disunity is fostered on the other.”

Believe Hands Individual Powerful Power Fate Groups Members Raised Cohesion Disunity

Book:Doing Sixty & Seventy

Source: Doing Sixty & Seventy

“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.”

Men Believe Enough Power Wise Groups Criticism Adequate Scrutiny

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer