Daniel Pipes Quotes

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Don’t you shit me George. You and I know who has the power in Alabama.

Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all you'll do is fall down and worship it.

We would rather be feared than respected.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.

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

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Authority is never without hate.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

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