Stephen Colbert Quotes

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

Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

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

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

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

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

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

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

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

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 says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.