Bob Greene Quotes

People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.

Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.

You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.

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

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

Politics is the art of dominating men.

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

Power is insinuating. Few men are satisfied with less power than they are able to procure.

Owning media is power. That’s the way it is.

If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.

The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

Power draws you in; it's something we can gravitate toward.

A lot of females, they want to do the things that I do. Some females are so closed, but they want to be open. Some girls, they want to feel that power that I tell them that I have. I tell women that I have power over these men, that I use these men.

It was a great time being with Blake & Murphy. I always made sure that, even if their matches weren't going the way they wanted to, they went the way that I wanted to.

I do not know how anyone can mould anyone.

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.