Chinese Proverb Quotes

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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

It is better to be the slave of a master than to be a slave of a slave.

We gradually become aware that we live in an environment where there is constant tension between authority and freedom.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

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

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.