John Waters Quotes

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

I can make men follow me to hell.

Whenever anybody is pursuing power, he's got to be funny.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

I don't seek power and do not run around.

I like power and I like to use it.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

I'm interested in power.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

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

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Let them hate as long as they fear.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominance.

I have only to raise a finger and the whole face of Europe is changed.

With a flag you can lead people wherever you want.

I do understand power, whatever else may be said about me. I know where to look for it and how to use it.