Viola Davis Quotes

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

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

… the tools of despotism and corruption

Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.

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.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

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

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

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

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

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

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

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

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

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

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

Power tends to get confused with repression.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.