Eldridge Cleaver Quotes

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.

I've never had a good line. Well, maybe 'I must break you'.

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

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.

Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people’s decisions is to use the word “ask”—as in “We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share.” But of course governments do not ask, they tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not “ask” for contributions. It takes.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

I love someone who tries to boss me around.

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

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

I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

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.

I always remember I'm the monkey and he's the organ-grinder.

The less people know about what is going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe.

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

Believe me, Winston, that hat fits you perfectly. You are going gradually have to get used to me leading you.

Power over a man's support is a power over his will.