Morihei Ueshiba Quotes

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

I like power and I like to use it.

Power has no limits.

Attention isn't really earned. It's invoked; it's manipulated. It can be heady and make you feel powerful, but it isn't something you accomplish; you get it - or you don't.

I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.

It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me"-GC

I control every interaction with every human being I'm with. I can actually manage any situation with 98 percent of the people on Earth.

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

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?

People with leverage have dominance over people with less leverage. In other words, just as humans gained advantages over animals by creating leveraged tools, similarly, humans who use these tools of leverage have more power over humans that do not. Saying it more simply, 'leverage is power'.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.

The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.

He who feeds you, controls you