Absolute power (n.) is like a room where every mirror has been swapped for a portrait.
Absolute power (n.) spends most of its time managing the small number of people who could take it.
Absolute power (n.) is not corrupting, it is revealing of character.
Absolute power (n.) is partial to simplicity. It wants simple problems, simple solutions, simple definitions.
Authority (n.) is what we keep seeking after losing God — conscience, reason, the herd, history — so as to get around the risk of positing a goal for ourselves.
Authority (n.) is powerful — You can't fight City Hall
Authority (n.) is everything — eloquence is not what the speaker says but who he is that gives weight to eloquence.
Authority (n.) is anathema to freedom — Where there is authority, there is no freedom.
Biopower (n.) is authority interested in your pulse rate
Biopower (n.) is uniquely discrete, continuous, and bottom up (in contrast to top-down discipline).
Biopower (n.) is the mode by which subjectivities, sociality, and society are produced (not from top down as foucault would have it) but from the perspective of labor, that is, where power works directly on affects.
Biopower's (n.) exercise capitalism arose out of in the shape of adjusting the accumulation of men to that of capital and joining the growth of human groups to the expansion of productive forces.
Bureaucratic power (n.) is power exercised through offices, rules and records rather than personal authority.
Bureaucratic power (n.) is the right to say no without ever saying your name.
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