Pedro Reyes Quotes

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

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

The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

My words must be powerful to make people so afraid of them. It's rather nice to feel I have power.

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

Power, not reason, is the new currency of this court's decision making

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …

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

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced - conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph _I_ can win.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me"-GC

POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that, whenever ingested by people in high places, causes everyone below to run for cover.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

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.