Trevor Noah Quotes

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.

People only respond to fear.

How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

The way they control a population is by pointing at somebody else - whether they're gay, Mexican, Jewish, black - and saying, 'They are different than you. They're the reason you're in the shape you're in. You're not responsible.' And when they exonerate you through vilifying and demonizing someone else, they control you.

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

Our politicians want to keep us in a negative state because they can easily manipulate us.

Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control.

Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.

I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.

If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.

Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.

Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.

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

A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.

Social control is best managed through fear.

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

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

Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood.