Eric Nam Quotes

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.

Being liked by the boys and girls on the bus doesn't necessarily earn you the respect of the people back home. Standing up to them, giving as good as you get, all that helps.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

In the eighties, we had the ladies who lunch, the power lunch - everything was power. At the beginning of the nineties, things changed.

Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

For whatever reason, Coach Schwartz and I weren't all that close at first. We didn't have that kind of relationship, really. I don't know why, maybe because I was a rookie, but I never felt real comfortable just popping my head in his office and sitting down to talk.

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Golden Rule: Don’t ignore those lower down on the food chain, they can be your shock absorbers...

One notable feature is that English doesn't have much of a system for expressing relative social status.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

I think that, like the show 'Game of Thrones,' our fascination with power struggles is pretty unanimous.

There is always a human being behind the titles and the status.

There are certain people you're allowed to pick apart and certain people you're not.

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

I was in a group called the Yacht Club, and they were all older than me. I was kind of the baby.

When you're young, it's hard to lead people that are older than you.

Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.