Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Treat them so that they think that they are like dogs. And if they ever believe that they are not like dogs, then you have lost control over them

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

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

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

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

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

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Those who fear men like laws.

War and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

After you've watched your dad beat the crap out of Charlie King or some other bad guy in about forty movies, you pretty much always said, 'Yes, sir,' and meant it.

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

I have said that gymnastics can be abusive and brutal. That was my experience. I felt trapped in a world where authority figures were dictating my future.

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

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

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

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

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

You don't want to be in a relationship with someone who's scared of you.

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.