domineering leadership Quotes

Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.

The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

If I ruled supreme, there would be big problems.

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization.

It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny.

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.