Lilith Saintcrow Quotes

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

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

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …

Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your pretty looks, pet. Come here. She did not move. He ground out his cigarette on the window-ledge and laughed. Come here, he said again, softly. So she went.

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

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.

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

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

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

Power over a man's support is a power over his will.

You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do.

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.

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

I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?

You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want." "Anything?" "Anything that doesn't require doing anything." "That's nothing, then." "Is it?" "Yes." "Well, that's something.

Thats why your doing this? Because Lissa told you to?

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.

One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.