Jane Porter Quotes

We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.

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.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

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

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

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

There are two fairly standard approaches to political power used by those who seek it. Some seek power with the assumption that the citizenry are the source of legitimacy and are to be treated with respect. Others concentrate on identifying whatever insecurities there are within the citizenry and on exploiting them.'

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe.

Boys, I've just reminded Hubert that I've got his balls in my pocket.

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

We lead them to believe that we are in complete control over every aspect of their lives.

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

War and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing - which is a great thing and a dangerous thing.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.