Victor Hugo Quotes

Men are marked out from the moment of birth to rule or to be ruled.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

Social conservatives say who drives the bus.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.

The tribe that constitutes a woman its ruler will not find redemption.

Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?

No true and perfect human society can be conceived which is not governed by some supreme authority…. Do the sheep when they are all assembled together rule and guide the shepherd?

Possibly the presence of women as voters would tend still further to promote order than has been done by the ballot …. If men choose to say that women are not their equals, women have nothing to do but to give in. Physical force, the ultimate basis of all society and all government, must be on the side of the men; and those who have the key of the position will not consent permanently to abandon it.

Women ruled all; and ministers of state Were at the doors of women forced to wait,-- Women, who we oft as sovereigns graced the land, But never governed well at second-hand.

Women to govern men, slaves freemen, are much in the same degree; all being total violations and perversions of the laws of nature and nations.

… dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

I think that, like the show 'Game of Thrones,' our fascination with power struggles is pretty unanimous.

Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.

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.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

Rules with an iron fist, but sometimes in that fist is a rose.