Jackie Cooper Quotes

If you're working for somebody and trying to check on them, it never works. You're just saying what they want you to say at the end of the day.

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

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

Power is seductive.

It's better to be known as a puppet than pretend not to be a puppet like Nawaz Sharif.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.

Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom.

B.O.B. and I have a longtime understanding - when we're done with each other, we know exactly which one of us has been used, and it isn't me. Good night Gideon.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.

One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about. My guess is that it's just a gigantic hoax, invented to keep people quiet and diverted. Everyone talks about love: the priests, the advertising posters, the literati, and the politicians, those of them who make love. And in speaking of love and offering it as a panacea for every tragedy, they would and betray and kill both body and soul.

Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.

I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

George [Michael], I want your sex, so be my father figure and I will have faith if we have to live hand-to-mouth. The diva himself.

The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.

I was bullied by my siblings and cousins, so make-believe was a way in which I could be in charge. When I was like 10 and my sister was about five, I convinced her that she was going to jail because she used a bad word. The doorbell happened to ring, and I told her it was the police. I made her pack her bags. She was crying, and then I said to her, "I forgive you, and I'm gonna tell the cop to go away." Then, of course, she loved me. It was terrible - she still remembers it. I had a sordid sense of humor.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.