Quotes About Power

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.

We #fear our intuitions because we fear the transformational power within our revelations.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

Fear only exists when you do not understand that you have the power to project thought and that the Universe will respond.

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.

The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.

I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.

The strongest passion is fear.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.

Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.

[...]you don't have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day.

Fear is the greatest salesman.