Rachel Field Quotes

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

[Richard Nixon] bleeds people. He draws every drop of blood and then drops them from a cliff. He'll blame any person he can put his foot on.

Guys like the Monarch are not unique, and there are guys like him all over the world torturing dumb scientists.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness.

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed

Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.