19 Quotes by Dennis Hume Wrong

Power has always been one of those words that everybody uses without necessarily being able to define satisfactorily.

Power is treated both as a quality or attribute possessed by individuals, groups, or larger social structures and as an indicator of an active or interactive process or relation between individual or collective actors.

Power is applied to physical phenomena and processes.

In recent years power has tended to become an even more diffuse and far-ranging notion in social and political theory.

Power is an essentially contested concept, meaning that people with difference values and beliefs are bound to disagree over its nature and definition.

Power is claimed that there cannot be any commonly accepted or even preferred meaning so long as people differ on normative issues as they are likely to do indefinitely, if not forever.

Power therefore obviously relational, postulating something that acts on its environment and brings about some change in it.

Power is of universal scope, applying to the physical world in general, including the human actions within it. Power is of universal scope, applying to the physical world in general, including the human actions within it.

Power as the capacity to produce effects may be imputed to the agency as a dispositional property even when the capacity is not manifest in action.