Dan Fogelman Quotes

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

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

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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

When we think we lead, we are most led.

No puppet. No puppet. You’re the puppet.

Renzi is a pawn. Renzi is a dumb slave at the disposal of nameless people who want to control all of our lives from Brussels.

Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.

With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

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

Learn to obey before you command.

As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.

I'm not a kingmaker.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

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.

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.