David Lindsay-Abaire Quotes

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

It's funny, but on a set there's a pecking order. There's a caste system, you know? It goes from the star down to the extra. That includes the crew as well. I've never liked that.

I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seems like he's the commander, but then you reveal that there's an even bigger puppet master up above and beyond him.

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

Humans want to know the hierarchy; it's important for there to be one leader.

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

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

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

I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

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

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.

When you're an assistant, you're executing the wishes of your boss.

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

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

Being the lowest one on the totem pole is sometimes the fun part to play.

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

He was in charge of everything and I was to be wherever he wasn’t.

Everyone follows the chief. This is a very disciplined army we have.

White men have too many chiefs.

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