# Power Dynamics - [[Robert Greene Argues That Deceit is Moral]] - [[Nadja's Essay on Power Dynamics]] ## Quotes and Passages ### Parliament of Whores > Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. **Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power.** The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us. > (from Parliament of Whores by Patrick Jake O'Rourke) I have a feeling that [[John Stuart Mill]] would agree that "in a democracy the whores are us". ### Harry Potter ![[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire#^v8spuf]] ![[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows#^wz5ese]]