Steve Bannon Quotes

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

We would rather be feared than respected.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Authority is never without hate.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Power is paradoxical.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

Power is the ability to get things done.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

I like power and I like to use it.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

The way to have power is to take it.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.