George R. R. Martin Quotes

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

Anyone who goes against my decisions, I liquidate him

The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

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

Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do, it makes you want to hide under the coffee table.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

You do not mess with the special investigators.

Aubrey's voice when he answered was soft. "I'm one of the reasons they wouldn't dare.

Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

I will have you removed if you don't stop. I have a little system of my own.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Oh, justice is what you're threatened with.

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

I think political people are afraid of me.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.