Mary Shelley Quotes

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

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.

Fear is stronger than love

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.

Passionately obsessed by anything we love - an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love.

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

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

I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life.... I want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters.

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.

People are motivated by fear, but they are not inspired by it. Everything that inspires us comes from love.

If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.

He resisted for a while and there were some legal boundaries, you know, keeping me from being near him or his family, but in the end, love overcame. And I got what I wanted. I always get what I want.

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it

You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong." He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin. "My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press." he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.