Andy Muschietti Quotes

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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

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

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

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

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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

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

Don’t you shit me George. You and I know who has the power in Alabama.

The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame.

People who are divided are easier to control.

The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have.

The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

The classic problem in a relationship is a person trying to control the other person. People just want to conquer somebody.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes- people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst.

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.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

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