Susie Dent Quotes

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

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

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.

Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.

I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seems like he's the commander, but then you reveal that there's an even bigger puppet master up above and beyond him.

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

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

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

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.

A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

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.

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

Gifts make slaves.

Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.

Nobody is strong-minded around a President…