Han Fei Quotes

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Put not your trust in Princes.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Politics is power, and communications is power,

If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.

They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray.

Safer to be feared than loved.

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.

I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.