Mark Lawrence Quotes

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

If you want to control somebody, support them. Or marry them.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.

All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone’s face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someone’s skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another person’s body at your thrall.

A little tip for you, Winged Wonder. Don't threaten the woman you want to seduce." See Annabelle take control. He reached out, gently brushed his fingertip along her collarbone. "If it means saving your life, I'll do more than threaten you. I'll follow through. Best you realize that now, rather than cry foul later.

The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

He resisted for a while and there were some legal boundaries, you know, keeping me from being near him or his family, but in the end, love overcame. And I got what I wanted. I always get what I want.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they’ll make of you? Maybe you’ll help them to persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.

The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

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

I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!