Quotes About Power

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

We all know the personal relationship between Michel Platini and President Blatter. It was like a mentor and protege, or even father and son.

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.

Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity

Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

I have built my organization upon fear.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive.

I scorn their hatred, if they do but fear me

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me; but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force, I should feel that it must be resisted.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.