Alan Ball Quotes

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

Why do you all push us around?

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

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

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

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

I have built my organization upon fear.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

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

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack.

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

I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

You know, people do call it homophobia, and even that term alone is interesting to me. Because I don't even know how they call it homophobia, because that's a fear of the same. It's more heterophobia. It's a fear of something different from yourself.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

You better go get yourself some guns. The only thing honkies respect is guns.

The Cambodians [Khmer] are so stupid that we must frighten them. Ordinary moral suasion has no effect.

The two things I feared as a boy most were rattlesnakes and white people.

There is again a rising fever and anger towards those seen as different.

Religious clerics have a big share in the rise on intolerance towards minorities. A country like Pakistan where literacy rate is low and people are naïve when it comes on opinion making, it becomes easy to be successful in manipulating people’s minds. The manipulation of their opinions by those who are extremists in their views and beliefs always meet disaster. These clerics have played an ugly role most of the times and their preaching of hate speech always led to more sufferings and disaster for minorities