Frank Zappa Quotes

You keep folks so intimidated. You can give them money, access, but they're still scared. And as long as you're scared, you're on the plantation.

The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

If I get ‘em by the short and curlies, the hearts and minds will follow.

The less people know about what is going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

Dependence begets subservience and venality.

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

You must labor until we have dominion over the minds and bodies of every important person in your nation.

My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.

You're a Good Little Slave

That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others

It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principle motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold.

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

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.

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

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

Kill her for me," she said in that whiny little-girl voice. Diego took a step toward me, wearing an expression that told me he was only too happy to oblige his lady love. "Oh, what?" I said. I wasn't even scared. I didn't care anymore. The numbness in my heart had pretty much taken over my whole body. "You always do what she tells you? You know, we have a word for that now. It's called being whipped.

He who feeds you, controls you

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people’s decisions is to use the word “ask”—as in “We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share.” But of course governments do not ask, they tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not “ask” for contributions. It takes.