R. Lee Ermey Quotes

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

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

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

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

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

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

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

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.

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

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

Those who fear men like laws.

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

Xavier McDaniel made me respect him. I thought I could do anything I wanted to. He grabbed me one time and almost choked me out. He said, 'You're going to do this. You're going to go get coffee. You're going to go get doughnuts.' It's a game of respect.

We would rather be feared than respected.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

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

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

You keep folks so intimidated. You can give them money, access, but they're still scared. And as long as you're scared, you're on the plantation.

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

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

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