Voltaire Quotes

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

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Learn to obey before you command.

There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.

A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

Inhale to the Chief

The silence of peoples is something kings should study.

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.

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.

A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful.

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

All them 5s need to listen when the 10 is talking

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

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

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

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

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Great men always pay deference to greater.