Damon Dash Quotes

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

They must be governed by and be subordinate to you.

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

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

Whether the institution to be defended is slavery, political absolutism, or the absolutism of the head of a family, we are always expected to judge of it from its best instances; and we are presented with pictures of loving exercise of authority on one side, loving submission to it on the other

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.

A servant cannot be greater than his master.

Learn to obey before you command.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

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

I'll talk. You'll listen.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

The majority is still at the General's disposal.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

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

I remember being taught my place.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

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

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

Wild beasts hate nets, and people hate their superiors.

No man ruleth safely but that he is willingly ruled.