Richelle Mead Quotes

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …

There was something about me even at an early age that enjoyed charming and manipulating.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

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

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

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

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

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

You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

I don't believe in strong-arming people.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

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

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe.

Telling a man to go to hell and making him go are two different propositions.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.