Alfred Thayer Maham Quotes

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

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

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

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

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

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

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

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.