Harry Belafonte Quotes

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

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

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

The majority is still at the General's disposal.

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

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.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

He who demands does not command.

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

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

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

You are for kings the ears with which they hear, the eyes with which they see, the tongues with which they speak, the hands with which they strike.

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

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

When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.

It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me"-GC

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

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.

I am now The Establishment. There's nothing I can do about it.

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 call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.