Antonio Martinez Quotes

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

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.

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

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it...People need somebody to watch over them.... Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

When I was captain, John Wright was making all the decisions and I followed like an obedient student.

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

They go where I tell them and do what I tell them.

No man ruleth safely but that he is willingly ruled.

How can another man call another man boss? That's like calling another man 'Daddy.'

Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

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

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.

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

Learn to obey before you command.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

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

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

The majority is still at the General's disposal.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

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