Mekhi Phifer Quotes

In 'Casino,' there was this scene where Bob De Niro tape-records Sharon Stone's phone call. Then he asks her about where she's going, and he catches her in a lie. It was a great scene, especially for Bob's work, but we found that, in light of the whole film, it wasn't needed.

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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

Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.

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

Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people’s decisions is to use the word “ask”—as in “We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share.” But of course governments do not ask, they tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not “ask” for contributions. It takes.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.

Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust.

Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.

Pity is just another form of abuse.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

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

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Call someone your lord and he'll sell you in the slave market.

Suspect power more than vice.

The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack out of him.

… the tools of despotism and corruption

We lead them to believe that we are in complete control over every aspect of their lives.

After taking advantage of the weakness, the credulity and the ignorance of the weakest and the most ignorant of the people, those sly, cunning politicians easily had them believe whatever they wanted. Consequently, they made them accept with respect and submission, willingly or not, all the laws they wanted to establish.