Power And Control Quotes

“Another reason abusers don’t want to give up the ‘power’ is that they don’t want to give up the power.”
― Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out

“Money is nice, but the world is full of things that people would never sell. Favors and obligation are worth far, far more.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“You treat that Mama Abassi like your second mother," it had said. "But you don't ever wonder if she's just keeping you under control? Or even making use of your talents?”
― Nnedi Okorafor, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“Those who claim to be closest to God are furthest from Heaven.”
― Navonne Johns

“Traumatized children who grow up in households in which one dominant abuser takes all the power for himself, learn to identify with power as a special need, like a missing nutrient for their souls.”
― Sara Niles, The Long Suicide: Losing Ariel

“Why did the god of the Western Bible got annoyed when people were united, speaking the same language, and building a high tower together with zero hatred?

The god of the Western Bible divided the people and caused confusion amongst themselves ...dividing them into small tribes. Just like how the West did to the African continent.

History is mind-blowing.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Malamuth, Sockloskie, Koss, and Tanaka (1991) proposed a model of the characteristics of aggressors that suggests that coercive sex may be conceptualized as resulting from the convergence of (1) relatively high levels of ‘impersonal’ sex and (2) hostile, dominating characteristics… According to this model, the determinants of coercive sex can often be traced to early home experiences and parent–child interactions… Individuals experiencing this type of home environment may develop negative views of male–female relationships, which may foster a relatively impersonal orientation to sexuality, a hostile ‘schema’ about social relationships, or both.” (pp. 281–282)”
― David M. Buss, Sex, Power, Conflict: Evolutionary and Feminist Perspectives