Michael Caine Quotes

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

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

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

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

I'd rather control someone than be controlled.

Power tends to get confused with repression.

In every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise not sense; by meanness, not greatness.

Powerlessness also corrupts.

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

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

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

Power over a man's support is a power over his will.

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

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

No puppet. No puppet. You’re the puppet.

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

Headline writers love the phrase 'Power Grab,' but you can't really grab it, can you? Power is a greased watermelon, a wisp of smoke, difficult to grasp, harder to hold, impossible to control while getting both feet down in bounds.

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

He who feeds you, controls you

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