Al Davis Quotes

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

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

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

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Can you be cruel and proud? For a great man among the commonalty, and in particular among such as we shall have to do with, will not be thought anything worth if he be not feared and dreaded, and at times renowned for his cruelty. It is thus that the Flemings wish to be governed; and among them men's lives should be no more valued, nor should they have more pity shown to them, than swallows or larks, which are caught in the proper season for the table.

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

To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body; the mind also must be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny.

You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

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.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.

Let them hate as long as they fear.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

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

The silence of peoples is something kings should study.

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Those who fear men like laws.

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

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.