Paulo Coelho Quotes

Dad's the master, I'm the student.

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

I always think the relationship between a teacher and a student should be short and maybe violent. You don't need to spend years together. All you need is an explosion: you are the material to explode; the teacher is the detonator.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

I'm just as famous as my mentor... but that's still the boss don't get sent for

This is how it is today: The teachers are afraid of the principals. The principals are afraid of the superintendents. The superintendents are afraid of the board of education. The board is afraid of the parents. The parents are afraid of the children. The children are afraid of nothing!

The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.

Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.

Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.

Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she bids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!" -Royce Westmoreland

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.

When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.

His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

If Stalin ever told me to urinate, I'm not sure I'd be able to.

Men learn while they teach.

People follow courage, not titles.

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the leader, the only spokesman for the Black Muslims.