Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

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

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

There are two fairly standard approaches to political power used by those who seek it. Some seek power with the assumption that the citizenry are the source of legitimacy and are to be treated with respect. Others concentrate on identifying whatever insecurities there are within the citizenry and on exploiting them.'

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

Xavier McDaniel made me respect him. I thought I could do anything I wanted to. He grabbed me one time and almost choked me out. He said, 'You're going to do this. You're going to go get coffee. You're going to go get doughnuts.' It's a game of respect.

Conall,” “Aye, Alexia?” He looked up at her. Was that fear in his caramel eyes? “I am going to take advantage of you,” she said

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

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

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

Social control is best managed through fear.

I will have you removed if you don't stop. I have a little system of my own.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

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

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

It's beautiful to have people look me in the eyes and actually treat me like a human.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

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

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

I don't know that Donald Trump really cares about what the outcome is, as long as he's in charge of it. Seeing whom he can steer in which direction and how far he can push them.

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.