Paul Begala Quotes

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

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

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.

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

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.

I love someone who tries to boss me around.

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

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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

There is no more contemptible poison than power over one's fellow men.

The natural course of power is to make the many slaves to the few.

Dependence begets subservience and venality.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Slavery made the Negro as dependent upon the intelligence and foresight of his master as a soldier upon the will of his commander

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

We must tame these fellows and make them useful to us.

The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

Everybody is owned by somebody.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

How can another man call another man boss? That's like calling another man 'Daddy.'

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.