Jimmy Barnes Quotes

The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

We shouldn’t use fear for political purposes—scaring people to death so that they will vote for you or scaring people to date so that we can create a terror-industrial complex.

Any political or philosophical agenda can and will be perverted by power and/or fear.

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

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

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

Remember that this White house is populated with … control freaks.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force.

… the tools of despotism and corruption

We can destabilize your government and make a horrible example out of you

One need only watch totalitarians at work to see that once men gain power over other men’s minds, that power is never used sparingly and wisely, but lavishly and brutally and with unspeakable results.