Larry Cohen Quotes

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.

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

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

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

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

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

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

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

What feeds me destroys me.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

He who demands does not command.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.