Charlaine Harris Quotes

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

They must be governed by and be subordinate to you.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

I love someone who tries to boss me around.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

I'll talk. You'll listen.

He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.

The majority is still at the General's disposal.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.

The state is force incarnate, its essence is command and compulsion.

I always remember I'm the monkey and he's the organ-grinder.

They go where I tell them and do what I tell them.