Blaise Pascal Quotes

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

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

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe.

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

We lead them to believe that we are in complete control over every aspect of their lives.

The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

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

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

The object of power is power.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.

One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.