Aravind Adiga Quotes

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

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

No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.

Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

None is borne Master.

As the world leads we follow.

If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful.

People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.

The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command.

All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.

Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.

The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

I'm not mad, though," Kat said. "You lied to me, and I lied to you. We're even." Finally he lost the grin. "When did you lie?" She gave him a Sweet'N Low smile, as if his amusement had been poured into her. "Every time we messed around. I didn't actually enjoy myself, if you know what I mean.

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.

Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods.