Monica Crowley Quotes

For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

It all boils down to power and money.

All power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

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

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

People always use power, that's the unsurprising thing. They use it to try to sleep with who they want to sleep with - women as well as men do that - but I don't understand violence.

"But please, when you see an opportunity..." He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up so I have to look at him. His eyes glint. They almost look predatory. "Ruin them."

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.

Man is always exploited through fear.

War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.

When people don't want 'em, when they profit from the division, however, be it politically or financially, that's when I abhor it.

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.

Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no salvation for us on that road.

She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel. "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." "Some fun!" Bobby Lee said. "Shut up, Bobby Lee," The Misfit said. "It's no real pleasure in life.

There's strong men of wisdom in many different fields. They say 5% of the people are wise and righteous and 10% are wise but use their wiseness for wickedness or to deceive others. It's like a magician: he knows the answer to the trick, but you don't. He has to keep you blind to the truth in order for the illusion to work. When you've got that kind of wisdom and somebody else doesn't, you can always take advantage of them.