Claire Fox Quotes

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

I delight in embarrassing somebody else.

The system under which we live is owned and operated by people who do not deserve to run the world.

Madame....gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.

Everybody who comes to my home has to play at least one set against me. I beat them all. The best thing is when they want another set. People like me who can't stand not to win. I beat them again and again until they are furious, then I laugh. That's funny.

People who exploit their power and abuse others need to be revealed.

It's not lost on me that every single person who told their story about Harvey Weinstein talked about how they were silenced, how they were encouraged not to speak up, how they were embarrassed or ashamed to speak up.

I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

Sometimes a pinch of sadism is the ingredient that makes victory taste that little bit sweeter.

For every R. Kelly or Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein, there's, you know, the owner of the grocery store, the coach, the teacher, the neighbor, who are doing the same things. But we don't pay attention until it's a big name. And we don't pay attention 'til it's a big celebrity.

In the South, people in power feel they don't have to answer to no one.

It is always funny to see a grown man bully get beat up by a little girl or anything.

A lot of people are jealous about Man United, so they just keep criticising, even when they win.

I've gotten stopped for reckless eyeballing, for staring too hard. These officers think they're Tarzan and this is a jungle, that all the animals need to be tamed.

It seems to me virtually any ideology, no matter how intrinsically benign, can be used to oppress. And any group with power, no matter how well-meaning, ultimately corrupts and ends up exploiting its advantage to some extent.

Studies do show that in hierarchical structures, you do get more harassment. There's more power concentrated at the top, which means there's more abuse of power concentrated at the top. And every TV show is very much a hierarchy.

I've been propositioned by men who were in a position to cast me. I lost a few roles because I didn't give in.

When posh boys are in trouble they sack their servants.

There is casting couch in the Malayalam industry.

When bosses, leaders, and powerful men and women ignore or deny the accounts of harassment victims, they reinforce the idea that harassers are playing the game as they should and that the rest of us should fall in line.

If you have to abuse your power, you're probably in the process of losing it.