Kanye West Quotes

Power never takes a back step—only in the face of more power.

I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.

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

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

She might not know what your routine is, but I do,” I said softly. “So put the lantern down. You’re not burning me yet, and we both know it.” “What’s she saying?” Sarah demanded, hobbling over. His white brows drew together, and I allowed a little smile to play on my lips. “Awfully bossy with you, isn’t she? Then again, it makes sense. She’s got the pants on, and you’re the one in the dress.

They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.

I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

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

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Attention isn't really earned. It's invoked; it's manipulated. It can be heady and make you feel powerful, but it isn't something you accomplish; you get it - or you don't.

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.

Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.

She make me beg for it until she give it up

Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.

Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

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

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

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.