Italian Proverb Quotes

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

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

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

Xavier McDaniel made me respect him. I thought I could do anything I wanted to. He grabbed me one time and almost choked me out. He said, 'You're going to do this. You're going to go get coffee. You're going to go get doughnuts.' It's a game of respect.

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 think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

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.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

I like power and I like to use it.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.

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

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.

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

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

I do understand power, whatever else may be said about me. I know where to look for it and how to use it.

No man ruleth safely but that he is willingly ruled.

I do not blame those who wish to rule the Athenians, but those who are over-ready to serve.

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

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

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

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

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.

When we think we lead, we are most led.

Everybody is owned by somebody.