Edwin Land Quotes

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

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

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

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

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

I don't believe in strong-arming people.

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

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

The less people know about what is going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

I will have you removed if you don't stop. I have a little system of my own.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

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

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

I don't know that Donald Trump really cares about what the outcome is, as long as he's in charge of it. Seeing whom he can steer in which direction and how far he can push them.

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

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.