Peter Hook Quotes

People can take, take, take from you. There are people whose profession is to do that. It's entertainment at the cost of human lives.

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

Pity is just another form of abuse.

I am not going to give in to people who try to exploit me because of my celebrity status.

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

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

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

I hated how Sam Rothstein got manipulated by Sharon Stone's character in 'Casino.' I mean, I just hate how he gets manipulated; that just gets ridiculous to me. I know it's historic, but I hated that.

Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.

Lisa Vanderpump is a manipulative person and when I was on the show I did a lot of her dirty work for her.

On 'Black Mirror,' we don't tend to deal with big, powerful people, because when you look at a Weinstein or something, you think, 'Is he capable of feeling anything?'

Marilyn Monroe was taken advantage of by most of the men that knew her, including Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, whom I also knew very well.

Sometimes it seems like America is the Christian and Israel is the little Jew they love in this fetishistic way. Like, you're my little sister and I'll kick anyone's ass that messes with you. But when we're alone and no one's looking I'll harass you.

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

I think R. Kelly is twisted, sick-minded, nasty, perverted - he different. I don't know anybody like R. Kelly.

I've had a few matches with Kevin Owens. I can recollect him taking advantage of me somehow underhandedly and me being walked and trampled all over and allowing it to happen.

I said 'no' nine times when Kanye asked me to work with him because I liked being friends with him. Then he put me in a position where I couldn't say no: He just told everyone I was his manager.

You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk.

B.O.B. and I have a longtime understanding - when we're done with each other, we know exactly which one of us has been used, and it isn't me. Good night Gideon.

Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.

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.

The laughing way we make damaged people our playthings, it's so dehumanizing.

The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.