Andrew Cuomo Quotes

Fear works. It is more effective than any drug, tactic, or torture device.

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

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

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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

He intimidated me. When Lyndon Johnson would call on the phone, I would perspire. He knew how to intimidate you and liked it.

What the terrorists want is to scare us and fill us with dread.

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

I can scare myself like a pro.

Bullies are just frightened people.

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

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

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

Fear controls you.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

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

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down.

Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.