Bob Gunton Quotes

Religion is just mind control.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

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

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

... force is the natural ally of superstition, and superstition knows it well.

… J. Edgar Hoover, whom you should trust as much as you would a rattlesnake with a silencer on its rattle.

Powerlessness also corrupts.

… the tools of despotism and corruption

Believe me, Winston, that hat fits you perfectly. You are going gradually have to get used to me leading you.

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

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

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

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.

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

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

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

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

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

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.