User:Freedom4U/Quotes/8

"Would power be accepted if it were entirely cynical? For it, secrecy is not in the nature of an abuse; it is indispensable to its operation. Not only because power imposes secrecy on those whom it dominates, but because it is perhaps just as indispensable to the latter: would they accept it if they did not see it as a mere limit placed on their desire, leaving a measure of freedom­–however slight–intact? Power as a pure limit set on freedom is, at least in our society, the general form of its acceptability."