Philip Massinger Quotes

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 can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Barbarians are by nature slaves rather than subjects.

No white man, in a slaveholding community, was the menial servant of anyone.

My whole life, I've been told to 'wait my turn' and 'know my place.'

Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.

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

There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master to exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. That gave you privilege. Colin Powell is permitted to come into the house of the master, as long as he will serve the master according to the master's dictates. Now, when Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.

A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

I had always been told cooking was a servant's job.

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

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

In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.

I remember being taught my place.

Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches, but men in good position, well-to-do sycophants.

My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.

I have neither eye to see, nor tongue to speak here, but as the House is pleased to direct me.

The masses in this country [Spain] are not like your Americans, nor even like the British. They are slave stock. They are good for nothing but slaves and only when they are used as slaves are they happy.

The Romans treat their servants better than the king of the Scythians treats his subjects. They deal with them as fathers or teachers, admonishing them to abstain from evil and follow the lines of conduct whey they have esteemed honorable; they reprove them for their errors like their own children. They are not allowed, like the Scythians, to inflict death on them.

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