Plato Quotes

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.

Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.

I don't conquer, I submit.

You have no power or authority, of course.... Is there anything we can appear to do?

The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.

There is great power in deference. Deference works with everybody.

The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.

Hope is the leash of submission.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

Never mind what I told you - you do as I tell you.

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.

I'm just as famous as my mentor... but that's still the boss don't get sent for

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

You wouldn't let him do it, would you, Jamie?" Jamie's expression was very serene. She stared at Andrew when she spoke to her husband. "With your permission, I would like to answer him." "You have it," Alec replied. "Andrew," she called out in a voice as cold and clear as a frigid winter morning, "my husband does whatever he wishes to do. I am sometimes allowed to help, though. If he decides to cut off your feet, I will, of course, offer him my assistance.

Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

You said everything I needed to hear. I'm hooked now. You have me. What are you going to do with me?