Marilyn Manson Quotes

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

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

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

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

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

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

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

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

I have said that gymnastics can be abusive and brutal. That was my experience. I felt trapped in a world where authority figures were dictating my future.

The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

We live in a world where there's a culture of fear, where some leaders have a strong pull on people, which is exactly what Pennywise does.

When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

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.

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

For me, a lot of my work has dealt with what it means to be at the center of the universe and how alienating and kind of seductive it is. A lot of my work is very aggressive and very visual, but at the same time, it has a lot of tension in it and makes you kind of uncomfortable sometimes.

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

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

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.