J. K. Rowling Quotes

A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful.

I look formidable.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

What we depend upon in a political leader is the fact that if necessary he will kill for us…. If he is not willing to shed blood we are afraid of him. He must protect us.

Virtue without terror is powerlessness.

Germans understand only force.

Lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror.

The silence of peoples is something kings should study.

Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

I know people fear me when they see me in their mirrors. It's a good position to be in because they know they need to defend to the limit.

The London fans know what I bring to the table. Destruction.

My hatred gives me strength.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

Black is a colour of power and strength.

Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.

Religions are maintained by people. People who can't get laid, because sex is the first great earthly pleasure. But if you can't get that, power is a pretty good second one. And that's what religion gives to people. Power. Power is sex for people who can't get or don't want or aren't any good at sex itself.

Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

I've been so mistreated by male authority in my life that I had a terrible time in my marriage trying to be a submissive wife. I wanted to rule the roost in everything. And it wasn't even really that I was rebellious; I was afraid of being hurt. And I think that a lot of people that choose these alternative lifestyles, I think it's because they've been hurt somewhere along the line very badly.

The problem with ruling by fear is that eventually, when the fear fades, fury replaces it.

People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.