David Miscavige Quotes

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.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

The time will come, without my seeking it, that my words will almost serve as law. If I ask a certain thing, it will be done. If I don't want something, it will not be done.

I can make men follow me to hell.

King's entreaties are commands.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …

Leaders get people to do what they otherwise wouldn’t do.

Men do not obey him by virtue of tradition or statute, but because they believe in him.

One thing I am is a leader and if I'm not allowed to lead, then I have to follow. So then I want to be the best follower that I can.

When I speak everyone listens and that gives me pleasure - even Zlatan, who has got a strong personality. When I talk he listens to me and I explain why he has got to do this or that.

When I talk, people listen.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.

There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people get people to follow them because they have a certain type of charisma, and there's always people willing to take over. People want a leader. And there will be more and more of them.

Cause I bring the heater. Love me cause I'm your leader.

If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

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.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Learn to obey before you command.

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

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.