Danny Boyle Quotes

Those who fear men like laws.

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

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

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

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

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

Fear controls you.

Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

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

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

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

Let them hate as long as they fear.

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

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

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Even when powerful men stumble, they inspire fear.

I hear them mumblin, I hear the cacklin I got em scared, shook, panickin

We would rather be feared than respected.

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.