Robin Hobb Quotes

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others.

There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

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.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

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

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

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; The subject, not the citizen; for kings And subjects, mutual foes, forever play A losing game into each other's hands, Whose stakes are vice and misery. The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

Where Macgregor sits, there is the head of the table.

Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.

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

Everywhere in life, everywhere in the world, there has to be bosses.

Dr. King gave the "I have a dream" speech, not the "I have a plan" speech.

We are redeemed one man at a time. There is no family pass ticket or park hopping pass to life. One ticket - one at a time. Man doesn't vanquish hatred or bigotry. The target keeps moving. From the blacks to the Irish; atheists to Christians. But as always there are a few leaders: Ben Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Fredrick Douglas, Booker T Washington, Ghandi and Martin Luther King. They know that the march toward freedom never ends, man must be ever vigilant and pray less with his lips and more with his legs.

Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I do know is that republics came to the world to make sure that no one is more than anyone else. The pomp of office is like something left over from a feudal past: "You need a palace, red carpet, a lot of people behind you saying, 'Yes, sir.' I think all of that is awful."

'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

There can only be one king.

If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.

We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.