Wendi McLendon-Covey Quotes

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

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

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.

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

The less people know about what is going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

Watch out for the man who talks of putting things in order. Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

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

… the tools of despotism and corruption

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.

The more pain you inflict on someone, the more they will tell you what they think you want to hear.

Dictators have an old trick to assess the strength of their opposition: they say something patently untrue, and then look to see who mindlessly repeats it. Those who do, they recognise as their true supporters.

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

Force works on servile natures, not the free.

Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principle motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold.

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

The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

You’ve never been a teenager, sweetie. You know what’s best for you.

Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.