Pat Brown Quotes

All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.

The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control.

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

Fear is the politicians dance partner.

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it

I will give you a show that you've never ever seen before, why?...Because I can

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear.

Anyone who believes he is bigger than the system is wrong.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong." He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin. "My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press." he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.

Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.

That execution will take place here." She runs her fingertips over the table beneath her. "On this table. I thought it would be interesting to show you." "I knew what would happen when I came here," I say. "It's just a table. And I'd like to go back to my room now.

Aubrey's voice when he answered was soft. "I'm one of the reasons they wouldn't dare.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get you' or 'your wife is next'.

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

Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me I am sending back the key; in his eye's darkroom I can see my X-rayed heart, dissected body: I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard s study.