John Selden Quotes

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

When the mayor's concerned about something, eveybody's concerned about it.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other people's decisions for them?

Power is insinuating. Few men are satisfied with less power than they are able to procure.

I do not wish to see men of culture asking to be entrusted with power

What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?

No true and perfect human society can be conceived which is not governed by some supreme authority…. Do the sheep when they are all assembled together rule and guide the shepherd?

No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled.

Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.

The central factor in most human beings is power. Politics is the manifestation of the quest for power.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

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

The whole conversation of my work has to do with power and who has it.

I'm an alpha male.

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

I don't care about keeping seats of power.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.

No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.

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

There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.

None is borne Master.

As the world leads we follow.