Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

I will have you removed if you don't stop. I have a little system of my own.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

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

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

Just remember who you belong to, Hannah. I wouldn't want to have to shoot anyone - or strangle you." She leaned over to kiss his shoulder. "Why am I the one to be strangled?" "It's a much more personal death.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

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

We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.

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

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

There’s no reason to respect anyone’s word in that part of the world. The only thing they respect is force and the threat of force.

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

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

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

Some people get a feeling of power from being unpleasant.

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

If a guy can bully you, he will bully you.

It's not my nature to dominate and bully.

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

Never run from one such as me, female. You will no’ get away - and we like it.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.