Dinah Maria Mulock Quotes

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

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

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.

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

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.

You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

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

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

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.