Robert Strauss Quotes

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

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

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

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

Bullies are just frightened people.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

In every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise not sense; by meanness, not greatness.

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

I have learnt that bullies use fear and intimidation as their primary weapons.

I don't think anyone likes to be pushed around.

Trump prides himself on being an intimidator.

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.

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

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.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

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.

I have built my organization upon fear.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

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