Patricia Briggs Quotes

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

The central factor in most human beings is power. Politics is the manifestation of the quest for power.

Conflict is part of the human condition and can never be eliminated. Neither can the desire for power and the tendency to abuse it.

I'm a coyote shapeshifter playing in a world of werewolves and vampires---outmatched is n understatement.

You must either conquer and rule or lose and serve, suffer or triumph, and be the anvil or the hammer.

Men love power.

Wild beasts hate nets, and people hate their superiors.

Life is no longer a contest of great minds for great ends, but a pot house squabble.

Power is insinuating. Few men are satisfied with less power than they are able to procure.

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; The subject, not the citizen; for kings And subjects, mutual foes, forever play A losing game into each other's hands, Whose stakes are vice and misery. The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

How many, even of the better sort, would choose to be slaves to those above them, provided they might exercise an arbitrary and tyrannical rule over all below them?

Girls, in particular, use storytelling to establish hierarchies, a pecking order. There is a sort of jockeying of who is in charge of shared history.

I think that, like the show 'Game of Thrones,' our fascination with power struggles is pretty unanimous.

The whole conversation of my work has to do with power and who has it.

I ain't asking no one to fight. I've got my throne. If you want it, come see me.

Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.

Humans want to know the hierarchy; it's important for there to be one leader.

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

Most of the pack would rather have Darryl mad at them than Auriele.

I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

What you gotta understand is, in this conversation and in our fight, you're not in control.

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.