Franklin Knight Lane Quotes

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

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.

When your President calls you, you have to say yes

If you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.

Regulators will issue regulations until someone says no.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

I hate management. I hate management. I just do.

I don't like going to 155; I do it because everyone else does.

Perhaps, therefore, it is odd that if there is any one phrase that is guaranteed to set me off it's when someone says to me, 'OK, fine. You're the boss!' What irks me is that in 90% of such instances what that person is really saying is, 'OK, then, I don't agree with you, but I'll roll over and do it because you're telling me to. But if it doesn't work out I'll be the first to remind everyone that it wasn't my idea.'

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 not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.

Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.

Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

Why is everything always my decision?" I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else." Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.