Albert Camus Quotes

The more pain you inflict on someone, the more they will tell you what they think you want to hear.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.

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

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

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.

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

Those who fear men like laws.

He intimidated me. When Lyndon Johnson would call on the phone, I would perspire. He knew how to intimidate you and liked it.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

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

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

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.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

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.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.