
“States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.”
Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 3, Wealth and Power, p. 55
Uncommon Knowledge (2005)
Context: There are two kinds of power. "Power over" is very problematical. "Power within" is very exciting. You can tell the difference by whether you are messing with other people or not.
“States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.”
Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 3, Wealth and Power, p. 55
Referring to the 60's youth movements
Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)
Power and the Useful Economist (1973)
Context: When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself. To hold otherwise — to deny the political character of the modern corporation — is not merely to avoid the reality. It is to disguise the reality. The victims of that disguise are those we instruct in error. The beneficiaries are the institutions whose power we so disguise. Let there be no question: economics, so long as it is thus taught, becomes, however unconsciously, a part of the arrangement by which the citizen or student is kept from seeing how he or she is, or will be, governed.
“It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.”
Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter V : Anatomy Of The Corporate State, p. 125
statement issued regarding appointment to board of directors of Univision Communications, miamiherald.com (June 9, 2007)
2007, 2008
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Power of Words (1937), p. 235