Emily Levine Quotes

Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!

You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

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

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.

He who demands does not command.

It's important to keep your power and not give it up.

I'm not the kind of male who has to put my imprint on everything.

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.

Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right

Authority is quite degrading.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

Content is an obstacle to the exercise of power.

Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.

MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, “I’m going to be your surgeon? I’m here to talk to you about your procedure? I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.

There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.