Ambrose Bierce Quotes

The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

I have neither eye to see, nor tongue to speak here, but as the House is pleased to direct me.

Very well; whatever you say is necessary must be done.

I'm not going to kiss any rings from anybody.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family.

It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.

I don't conquer, I submit.

Those who know the least obey the best.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

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

There is great power in deference. Deference works with everybody.

For me, saying no to Salman is a big no-no in its self.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low.

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.