Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

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

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

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.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

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

One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.

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

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

I like power and I like to use it.

Society receives its momentum from power.

I do understand power, whatever else may be said about me. I know where to look for it and how to use it.

The people who exercise the power are not always the same people over whom it is exercised.

An expert is someone who is capable of articulating the interests of people with power.

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

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power.

The central factor in most human beings is power. Politics is the manifestation of the quest for power.

Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

When human beings say they have power, it always makes me laugh a little bit.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

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

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

Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.