Kyle Mooney Quotes

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Let them hate as long as they fear.

Even when my grandparents compliment me, I don't like when they do that.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.

I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

I like power and I like to use it.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

I have more influence now than when I had the power.