Bud Abbott Quotes

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

Dependence begets subservience and venality.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Man is always exploited through fear.

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

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

Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.

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

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

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.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Power tends to get confused with repression.

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..

I always remember I'm the monkey and he's the organ-grinder.

A people that patiently lets itself be trampled, deserves to be trampled and crushed.

Powerlessness also corrupts.

Watch out for the man who talks of putting things in order. Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Power over a man's support is a power over his will.