Quotes About Subordination

The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

they are trained from birth to accept authority.

I mean that it is an easy matter for him to instil into a capable general, say, the emotion of utter loyalty to the Mule and complete belief in the Mule's victory. His generals are emotionally controlled. They can not betray him; they can not weaken – and the control is permanent. His most capable enemies become his most faithful subordinates. The warlord of Kalgan surrenders his planet and becomes his viceroy for the Foundation.

to serve an ambassador who was despotic toward his subordinates and servile toward those of a higher social rank.

I curse you, even from the distance of these many years, for keeping me so hungry that if affected my brain and subordinated me to your evil. And my apologizes to the animals for comparing you to them, because surely animals are more humane.

The borrower is servant to die lender.

It turns out I'm not very good at working with a traditional boss.

I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

Broadly speaking, there are two types of people in the world. One type is known as leaders, and the other as followers

The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.

the further from headquarters an employee is located, the more autonomous his unit, the more you want him to be a slave so he does nothing strange on his own.

They will find whatever button will make you dance, and dance you will, no matter how hideous the tune.

And thus, the forms of life throughout the universe become divided into groups subordinate to groups.

Momma was the important woman in our home. She never let me forget that she was boss. I was always in the shadow. Every time I tried to step out on my own, I was in trouble with her.

Jayalalitha is a performing monkey in the hands of Sasikala.

I think one should be antagonistic to one's underlings. It keeps them on their toes. ~Soi Fon

men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time.

Lindell had seen too many of these women who subordinated themselves, but could also feel the temptation of giving in to a more traditional woman's role. It would be so easy to be like her mother. So seemingly secure.

An unconditional equivalence of law with the results of any particular formal process, therefore, would only be blind subordination to the pure decision of the offices entrusted with lawmaking, in other words, a decision detached from every substantive relation to law and justice, and, consequently, an unconditional renunciation of any resistance.

The bottom line was that black economic independence was anathema to a power structure that depended on cheap, exploitable, rightless labor and required black subordination.

It is hard to take orders from a man you laughed at in your cups,