Willie Nelson Quotes

I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives.

I did abuse the game a bit because I didn't give it the respect sometimes.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.

He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.

As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.

… the tools of despotism and corruption

It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter.

A bully waits until they are in the ascendancy to pounce on people.

The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame.

People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.

A man in a position of power over me used that said power to try and take advantage of me.

You should not be taking advantage of anybody.

I would say that it's wrong to milk someone's misery.

Women like me. Women love me, so if I really wanted to involve the women, I don't have to assault the women.

I don't need handcuffs to enslave a woman.

The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.' Where to?' The girl feigned surprise. Don't ask, just come on,' said the young man. Is that any way to talk to me?' It's the way I talk to whores.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from them, which was perfectly all right. They didn't want it anyway. It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly-except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead.

Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.