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Quotes About Power

Fear is the biggest motivator.
~ Bill Dixon
As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
~ James Bovard
Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.
~ Isaac Watts
Fear-filled words will defeat you, but faith-filled words will put you over!
~ Charles Capps
And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.
~ James Frey
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
~ Edmund Burke
Please remember that your greatest talent is so much more powerful than your biggest fear.
~ Robin Sharma
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
~ Susan Sontag
Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy
~ Jenny Holzer
Social control is best managed through fear.
~ Michael Crichton
I will fear no evil for I am the baddest beast in the land. (Nick)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.
~ Éliphas Lévi
He who fears God fears no man.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
~ Carl Jung
A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
~ Javier Bardem
A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.
~ Idries Shah
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
~ Elizabeth I
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
~ Noam Chomsky
You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.
~ Gary Zukav
The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
~ Adolf Hitler
We lend power to the things we fear!
~ Orison Swett Marden
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
~ Victor Hugo
Fear is the mind-killer.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune