Olivia Wilde Quotes

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Powerlessness also corrupts.

Watch out for the man who talks of putting things in order. Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

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

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

… the tools of despotism and corruption

You must labor until we have dominion over the minds and bodies of every important person in your nation.

The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us

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

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

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

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

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

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

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

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

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

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.