Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.
The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws.
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.
All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!
The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.
I was not big on playing house. I preferred make-believe that revolved around adventure, featuring pirates and knights. I was also domineering, impatient, relentlessly verbal, and, as an only child, often baffled by the mores of other kids.
Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.
I do know I'm a control freak.
The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or - much more mysteriously - to submit to it.
Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.
Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.
Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.
I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.
I'm kind of a control freak. But there are others like me.
If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.
Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others.
Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.
Taliban-esque: Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. With them, it's my way or no way.
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.
For some people, being free means being free to keep their feet on someone else's chest.
