Fear Tactics Quotes

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.

We kill the chickens to scare the monkeys.

We shouldn’t use fear for political purposes—scaring people to death so that they will vote for you or scaring people to date so that we can create a terror-industrial complex.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear--kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

A dictator ... must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force.

The game of politics is to make you afraid so that you don’t think.

We would rather be feared than respected.

Beat the dog and the panther will learn a lesson.

I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon, the people who cut off peoples' heads on television to intimidate, to frighten indeed the word 'terrorized' is just that. Its purpose is to terrorize, to alter behavior, to make people be something other than that which they want to be.

We need horror stories for people to focus on.

Fear is stronger than arms.

Our party [Zanu-PF] must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we're fighting - actively fighting something else. But if you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

We have Donald Trump standing up as one of the greatest fear-mongers in this nation's history. He's trying to make us afraid of each other.

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

Maybe the key aspect of imposing fear to the opposition is to make them understand that we have no fear.

I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available.

It's really scary or it's easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don't provide any substance to it.

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.