Willie Aames Quotes

We must form men so that they can only will what we wish them to will.

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

The path of freedom is blocked much more by those who wish to obey than by those who wish to command.

You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

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

If they can talk to you over a secure telephone line, then you have to do what they want.

Without respect of my private will, you will give me that counsel you think best.

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

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.

You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

I love someone who tries to boss me around.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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