Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

I love someone who tries to boss me around.

I'll talk. You'll listen.

He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.

The majority is still at the General's disposal.

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

I was put in a position with a man that, whenever he would call me at work or at home, work-related, he would say jump and I'd say how high and I would jump.

I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

Those who know the least obey the best.

I remember being taught my place.

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

The mass of the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

They must be governed by and be subordinate to you.

Whether the institution to be defended is slavery, political absolutism, or the absolutism of the head of a family, we are always expected to judge of it from its best instances; and we are presented with pictures of loving exercise of authority on one side, loving submission to it on the other

What we depend upon in a political leader is the fact that if necessary he will kill for us…. If he is not willing to shed blood we are afraid of him. He must protect us.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

That which is given in submission becomes a medium of defiance.

No man ruleth safely but that he is willingly ruled.

Those who fear men like laws.

We need a full-court press on personal protection. We need to be able to protect ourselves.

There is nothing that makes me more falsely arrogant, like, wanting to defend myself, than a TSA agent.