Hamza Yusuf Quotes

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

The classic problem in a relationship is a person trying to control the other person. People just want to conquer somebody.

You keep folks so intimidated. You can give them money, access, but they're still scared. And as long as you're scared, you're on the plantation.

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

He intimidated me. When Lyndon Johnson would call on the phone, I would perspire. He knew how to intimidate you and liked it.

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

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

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

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

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

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

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

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.

The more pain you inflict on someone, the more they will tell you what they think you want to hear.