Johnny Van Zant Quotes

Opportunity makes a thief.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

After taking advantage of the weakness, the credulity and the ignorance of the weakest and the most ignorant of the people, those sly, cunning politicians easily had them believe whatever they wanted. Consequently, they made them accept with respect and submission, willingly or not, all the laws they wanted to establish.

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

I like being innocent, but know now when I am being taken for a ride.

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

Everyone dies, and before that, most people eventually lose some of their faculties. So some people worry that as marketers get better at targeting the elderly, the line between advertising and unscrupulous manipulation will be harder to discern.

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

When someone gets sick, it is easy to get walked all over, walk all over people, and be so beat down you agree to things you would never normally agree to.

I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.

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

Criminals usually prey on weakness. They can smell it.

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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