Hugh Grant Quotes

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

It is better to be the slave of a master than to be a slave of a slave.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

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

He who demands does not command.

He was in charge of everything and I was to be wherever he wasn’t.

They must be governed by and be subordinate to you.

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

I do not blame those who wish to rule the Athenians, but those who are over-ready to serve.

The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

Everybody is owned by somebody.

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.

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.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

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

Whether the institution to be defended is slavery, political absolutism, or the absolutism of the head of a family, we are always expected to judge of it from its best instances; and we are presented with pictures of loving exercise of authority on one side, loving submission to it on the other

You pay me tribute, by that you become my slaves.

No man ruleth safely but that he is willingly ruled.