Mae West Quotes

Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you.

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

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

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

Powerlessness also corrupts.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

… the tools of despotism and corruption

People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

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

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

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

Power is always a corrupting influence.

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

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.