Richard Nixon Quotes

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them. Get them drunk, or whatever. Then discover what they really think. Push them and push them and push them.

Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough.

People only respond to fear.

I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.

In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.

I should say I am far more cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could leave any time I wanted. It's only a doll house after all. Anyway, I don't mind. I like dolls. Particularly the live ones.

Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.

People are only mean when they are threatened.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code - a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren't any right people.

A man who is afraid will do anything.

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money

Hitler had this understanding that you speak to people's deepest, darkest emotions and give them voice that can be incredibly effective.

I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by these experiments, that if a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town.

It's a funny thing because it's what the people say when they come across a ghost situation is that it does freak you out, but then you do get over it - for some reason you're not scared to come across it again.

I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.

Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind.

Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people give up their real riches for a cause that mutilates them; for an appearance that reifies them; for roles that wrest them from authentic life; for a time whose passage defines and confines them.

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

There's something very terrifying about that and very primal about it. It's my belief that what horror does for people is that it provides that primal fear that, when we were wild hunter-gatherers, we had as part of our natural lives because maybe something was trying to hunt and gather you as well. We don't have that anymore in life and that's one of the things that horror films and action films provide for us.

The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.