Phaedrus Quotes

In the harsh and violent Middle East surrounding us, there is no mercy for the weak. Only the strong survive!

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

Violence is the tax that Moslems must pay for gaining authority on earth.

No one will have mercy on those who cannot defend themselves in the Middle East.

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you at night.

The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of those mischiefs which have ruined cities, depopulated countries, and disordered the peace of the world, has been, not whether there be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; The subject, not the citizen; for kings And subjects, mutual foes, forever play A losing game into each other's hands, Whose stakes are vice and misery. The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

How many, even of the better sort, would choose to be slaves to those above them, provided they might exercise an arbitrary and tyrannical rule over all below them?

Power wears out those who do not have it.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

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

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

One Law for the Lion and the Ox is oppression.

A heavy aristocracy and corruption are two bridles in the mouths of a people which will prevent them from making any effectual efforts against their masters.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.