Leon Battista Alberti Quotes

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

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

Men still have to be governed by deception.

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

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Get up in one of our industrial centers today and say that two and two make four, and if there is any financial interest concerned in maintaining that two and two make five, the police will bash your head in.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

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

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.

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

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

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

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

History’s most important lesson is that it has not been possible to make coercion compatible with the truth.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

Suspect power more than vice.