Marla Maples Quotes

Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

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

I'm a private person. And I have a certain way in which I protect myself. I don't openly wear my feelings.

If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.

Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner uses control of the purse strings as a system of reward and punishment. It will also suffer if the lower earner takes a chippy, haughty attitude to spending money they haven't actually generated themselves.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Commerce is abusive. It's very hobbling to always be saying, 'Please let me put this out, this thing I've worked on for years.' It's like a nasty parent saying, 'No! Now go to your room.' As publishing companies got bigger, you felt even less significant.

I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

I'm keeping my power to myself and my glow. I'm not giving anybody my glow anymore.

If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore. And you actually have power over those people.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Let them hate as long as they fear.

Nothing overshadows truth so completely as authority.

The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim, denounces it, and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe.

Don't be deceived. There is no justice but strength.

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

People who bear the brunt of dominant economic and military power have always resented, even hated, the subordination they experience while admiring grudgingly the institutions that sustain the subordination.

Terrorism is what the weak use to increase their bargaining power against the strong.

Don’t you shit me George. You and I know who has the power in Alabama.