Libba Bray Quotes

... force is the natural ally of superstition, and superstition knows it well.

The belief in the power of charms for good or evil produces not only honesty, but a great amount of gentle dealing. The powerful are often restrained in their despotism from a fear that the weak and helpless may injure them.

Those who fear men like laws.

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

I have built my organization upon fear.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

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

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.

If men are not kept straight by duty, they must be by fear. The more they are kept by fear, the less they are free.

You are afraid of the one, I, of the few.... You are apprehensive of monarchy, I, of aristocracy.

Torture is a very humiliating experience. The goal is not to obtain information but to punish and break you so that you won't do anything against the authorities. You are made an example to others so that they will be too terrified to do anything either.

He [Stalin] is gone, but his shadow still stands over us today. It still dictates to us and we, very often, obey.

[Rape] is nothing more or less than a conscious process on intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.

Dictators are as scared of books as they are of cannon.

Those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

They'll never do this to you again.