William Hazlitt Quotes

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

Fear works. It is more effective than any drug, tactic, or torture device.

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.

Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.

Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.

If you're injecting fear into other people, then you're trying to kill their minds. You're trying to get them to stop thinking.

People only respond to fear.

Social control is best managed through fear.

If you want to scare people, you talk about evil.

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

Man is always exploited through fear.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.

The Chain Letter to the Ephebians. Forget Your Gods. Be Subjugated. Learn to Fear. Do not break the chain -- the last people who did woke up one morning to find fifty thousand armed men on their lawn.

Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.

Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.

Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough.