19 Quotes by Dennis Hume Wrong

Power resembles and includes physical force or energy, for example the explosive power seen as residing in a bomb.

Power as a capacity stating a potential relation to entities in its environment is no less as relational term when it is not actually realized in overt action.

The difference between having and exercising power, a version of the actual/potential distinction is thought to be obscured by the absence of a verb form, a problem that does not arise with influence or control.

A power relation always implies that the person subject to it does something he or she would not otherwise have done, but it need not be something that is or is perceived as against his or her wishes or interests.

Power penetrates the very core of human consciousness. It is implicated in anything and everything that can be said, which makes everything politics points to silences in the text that are held to reveal a presence confirmed by its very absence.

The power that treats everything as an expression of power follows essentially from the conflation of the generic notion of power to with power over, which is social relation in which some persons possess and exercise power over others.

Power to gratify their desires or realize their goals is to say no more than that they have desires and goals, that, in effect, they want to get what they want.

Power is often defined as a capacity to control or influence others.

Power may be imputed to an actor when the probability of his intending to achieve and effectively achieving control over another actor is rated high, even though he may not have previously exercised such control.