Ike Turner Quotes

I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.

A little tip for you, Winged Wonder. Don't threaten the woman you want to seduce." See Annabelle take control. He reached out, gently brushed his fingertip along her collarbone. "If it means saving your life, I'll do more than threaten you. I'll follow through. Best you realize that now, rather than cry foul later.

Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

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

Power is not a means; it is an end.

Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

Man is the most powerful creature on the planet. And we're arrogant. I mean, people own birds. It's like, there's a creature with the gift of flight. I want it. I'm going to put it in my kitchen and make it crap on old information.

All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.

I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.

They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.

Being with the Dap-Kings is like being an athlete.

Safer to be feared than loved.

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.

The most effective way to close down the human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it some form of dogma. A dogma will always vehemently defend itself from other information and repel any alternative opinion which contradicts its narrow, solidified view. Dogmas become a person's sense of security and means of retaining power, and humanity tends to cling to both until its knuckles turn white. Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

He who controls the remote, controls the world

Once I get the ball, you're at my mercy. There is nothing you can say or do about it. I own the ball.

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.

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