Emma Goldman
- On "Patriotism"
Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.
Jacques Derrida
- Injunctions of Marx
This already suffices to distinguish the specter not only from the icon or the idol but also from the image of the image, from the Platonic phantasma, as well as from the simple simulacrum of something in general to which it is nevertheless so close and with which it shares, in other respects, more than one feature.
Michel Foucault
- Prison Talk
Mechanisms of power in general have never been much studied by history. History has been studied those who held power - anecdotal histories of kings and generals; contrasted with this there has been the history of economic processes and infrastructures.
