Roberto Cavalli Quotes

Humans want to know the hierarchy; it's important for there to be one leader.

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

It's funny, but on a set there's a pecking order. There's a caste system, you know? It goes from the star down to the extra. That includes the crew as well. I've never liked that.

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to have a pecking order.

Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

The high must make the low its base.

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.

Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

No one is king by his own power.

Men are marked out from the moment of birth to rule or to be ruled.

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

He was in charge of everything and I was to be wherever he wasn’t.

If you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.

Your petition is to deal in the limitation of the succession. At this present it is not convenient, nor never shall be without some peril unto you, and certain danger unto me. But as soon as there may be a convenient time and that it may be done with least peril unto you, although never without great danger unto me, I will deal therein for your safety and offer it unto you as your prince and head without requests. For it is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.

They must be governed by and be subordinate to you.

Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

Wild beasts hate nets, and people hate their superiors.

Power is precarious.

Order is Heaven's first law, and this confessed, Some are, and must be greater than the rest -

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

It is better to be the slave of a master than to be a slave of a slave.

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has made nothing equal; her sovereign law is subordination and dependence.