Andrew Dominik Quotes

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

I don't believe in strong-arming people.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

I will have you removed if you don't stop. I have a little system of my own.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

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.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

Power tends to get confused with repression.

The less people know about what is going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe.

Boys, I've just reminded Hubert that I've got his balls in my pocket.