Anne Rice Quotes

Learn to obey before you command.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

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

Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

Those who can, must obey.

Everywhere in life people are in authority to make decisions and you have to abide by them, whether right or wrong.

The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.

Any man that tells me what to do is sexy!

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

Why is everything always my decision?" I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else." Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude

When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.

It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.

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

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.

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

There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed.

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.

If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?

Authority is quite degrading.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.