Rick Bayan Quotes

The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.

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

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

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

I don't know that Donald Trump really cares about what the outcome is, as long as he's in charge of it. Seeing whom he can steer in which direction and how far he can push them.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

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

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

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.

People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

A lot of people refer to power as shooting a loaded gun. When you have to shoot the gun, you've lost the power. Other people's knowledge of your gun should be enough.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

Whenever you have people in power, they try to control people. It's not necessarily a bad thing to control people - you can control people for good, you can control people for bad, but you're gonna try and control people.

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