Veronica Roth Quotes

I don't need handcuffs to enslave a woman.

Man is always exploited through fear.

Fear works. It is more effective than any drug, tactic, or torture device.

The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

"And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Power tends to get confused with repression.

Powerlessness also corrupts.

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

The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have.

The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

The classic problem in a relationship is a person trying to control the other person. People just want to conquer somebody.

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

To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires.

You keep folks so intimidated. You can give them money, access, but they're still scared. And as long as you're scared, you're on the plantation.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.