Fear is a serviceable tool, I suppose. Like the stalls in a battery farm. If you want to keep people from their collective strength, make them too afraid of each other to ever meet or talk.

Mike Carey
Fear is a serviceable tool, I suppose. Like the stalls...
Fear is a serviceable tool, I suppose. Like the stalls...
Fear is a serviceable tool, I suppose. Like the stalls...
Fear is a serviceable tool, I suppose. Like the stalls...
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Fear is a very effective tool; but, like all tools, it must be handled with care. When fear is used as a deterrent to prevent people from coming together and organizing politically, it is a very dangerous thing. If we make people afraid of each other and their own power, we cut them off from their strength. When people don't come together and fight for what they believe in, they are kept from the collective strength that they could bring to the table.

Source: The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor And The Bogus Identity

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