Joe Morton Quotes

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, "Give, give!

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

The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Power tends to get confused with repression.

Watch out for the man who talks of putting things in order. Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Don’t you shit me George. You and I know who has the power in Alabama.

You must labor until we have dominion over the minds and bodies of every important person in your nation.

The people always have some champion who they set over them and nurse into greatness …. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears, he is a protector.

Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.

The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.