James Jarrell Pickle Quotes

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

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

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

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

Don’t you shit me George. You and I know who has the power in Alabama.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

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

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

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

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

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

The less people know about what is going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

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

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

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 effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

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