Mark Bowden Quotes

People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

Fear controls you.

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

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the stake.

Fear does not have to be real to be powerful.

Fear is a powerful weapon. It can excite and motivate, and it can get people to yell and to scream. But fear has never created a job.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.

I can scare myself like a pro.

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.

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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

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

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

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

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

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

Power manipulates the innocent and terror is born.

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

Terror works by surprise.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.