Bernard Beckett Quotes

If I get ‘em by the short and curlies, the hearts and minds will follow.

Power over a man's support is a power over his will.

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

We lead them to believe that we are in complete control over every aspect of their lives.

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

As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

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

Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.

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

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

Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

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

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

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

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

I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

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

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.

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