Spiro Agnew Quotes

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Do I let a group of power-mongering men with short penises tell me what to do?

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

When it comes to power as it functions between humans, it all comes down to desire. If you know what someone wants, you can control them. It is as simple as that. And the reverse is also true: If you have control over your own desires, no one will ever own you. As humans, we are plagued with desire - it consumes us, it fuels us, it destroys us.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.

The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.