John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

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.

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

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

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

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

Don’t you shit me George. You and I know who has the power in Alabama.

Power over a man's support is a power over his will.

You must labor until we have dominion over the minds and bodies of every important person in your nation.

The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.

Everybody is owned by somebody.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them.

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

Arriane sized her up, tapping one finger against her lips. "Perfect," she said, stepping forward to loop her arm through Luce's. "I was just thinking I could really use a new slave.

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as dependent as the beggar, the social worker and the bandit. The form of dependence does not matter.