Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

I love the English …. I am the child of Queen Victoria. But I am also King in my own country and must be treated as such. Somsteu must speak gently to me. I shall not bear his dictation … I shall perish first.

Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't.

I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.

Hee that is a master must serve (another).

We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

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

I will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.

I do whatever the manager tells us to do, really.

When I was captain, John Wright was making all the decisions and I followed like an obedient student.

I'm not going to kiss any rings from anybody.

I always listen to my director and never argue with him.

You don't talk to Richard Petty unless he talks to you.

A manager can never accept somebody at the top influencing his decisions about the team.

Everybody is owned by somebody.

I've never liked bosses telling me what to do.

I play where I'm told to play.

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

Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and . . . you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.

Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.

Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious country. We kicked out the master. Now here comes the government telling us to humbly bow again.