Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

My words must be powerful to make people so afraid of them. It's rather nice to feel I have power.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

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

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Let them hate as long as they fear.

He intimidated me. When Lyndon Johnson would call on the phone, I would perspire. He knew how to intimidate you and liked it.

The central factor in most human beings is power. Politics is the manifestation of the quest for power.

The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

We would rather be feared than respected.

You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.