Wyatt Cenac Quotes

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

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that’s the best you can do with people. I’d tried kindness. I’d tried friendship. I’d tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job.

there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness.

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

I stare at him. "You can't risk not winning. Not because of me." Sean doesn't lift his eyes from the counter. "We make our move when you make yours. You on the inside, me on the outside. Corr can come from the middle of the pack; he's done it before. It's one side you won't have to worry about." I say, "I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick." Now he looks at me. He Says, very softly, "It's late for that, Puck.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.

Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

I was stronger than Edward. I'd made him say ow.

Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

Power is not a means; it is an end.

If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.

They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.

Safer to be feared than loved.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.