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Quotes About Subordination

You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.
~ Ronald Perelman
Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.
~ Robert K. Greenleaf
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
~ Robert Greene
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
One is always a good master when one isn't the master
~ Alfred de Vigny, Stello
He that cannot obey, cannot command.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Small to greater matters must give way.
~ William Shakespeare
blind obedience and unquestioning discipline.
~ David McKean
Authority," argues Molnar, "is the guarantee that man is not totally subordinated to authority," or, better, to a single overreaching authority that would extinguish all others.
~ David T. Koyzis
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
subordination and explain her inferiority; for even as a copy she was not a very good copy. There were differences. She was not one of His best efforts. There is a line in an old folk song that runs: 'I called my donkey a horse gone wonky.' Throughout most of the
~ Elaine Morgan
holy scripture was believed to justify her subordination and explain her inferiority; for even as a copy she was not a very good copy. There were differences. She was not one of His best efforts. There is a line in an old folk song that runs: 'I called my donkey a
~ Elaine Morgan
Kings and princes of the church may find shepherds and serfs preferred before them
~ Ellis Peters
Modernity promised that all human beings would be treated equally. Women took that promise seriously and rebelled against the old order. Women, now liberated and with equal careers, nevertheless find they still desire to have children, but have no basis for claiming that men should assume a responsibility for them. So nature weighs more heavily on women. In the old order they were subordinated and dependent on men; in the new order they are isolated, needing men, but not able to count on them.
~ Allan David Bloom
A dog among the masters, the most masterly of the dogs.
~ Ama Ata Aidoo
Fight hierarchy and bureaucracy as hard as you possibly can. Don't ever let it become the master; always remember it's the servant.
~ Herb Kelleher
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
~ Karl Kraus
Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite - inspire fear and insecurity.
~ Robert Greene
jak se jednou dostanete do sledu velení, musíte být neustále pÃ…â"¢ipraveni pÃ…â"¢ijmout vyšší velení. Jste-li v oddíle o jedné ?etÄ› - dost pravdÄ›podobné, v nynÄ›jÅ¡ím stadiu války - a jste pomocníkem velitele ?ety, když to váÅ¡ velitel koupí... pak... vy ... jste... jím!
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Ellis said, "Look, Mr. Warren signs the checks, right? He says jump, I say which side of my ass you want me to land on?
~ Robert Crais
Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power.
~ Robert Greene
Always make those above you feel comfortably superior.
~ Robert Greene
The manoeuvres of the US imperialists for 'globalization' and 'integration' are aimed at turning the world into what they call a 'free' and 'democratic' world styled after the United States, and thus bringing all countries and nations under their domination and subordination.
~ Kim Jong Il
Why is dance beautiful? And the answer is: because it is non-free motion, because the whole profound meaning of dance lies precisely in its absolute, esthetic subordination; its ideal non-freedom.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin