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Quotes About Subordination

Precisar de dominar os outros é precisar dos outros. O chefe é um dependente
~ Fernando Pessoa
Necesitar el dominio sobre los demás es necesitar de los demás. El jefe es un subalterno.
~ Fernando Pessoa
America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.
~ Louis Farrakhan
I didn't want painting to be simply an act of emphasizing one color to do something to another color, like using red to intensify green, because that would imply some subordination of red. I didn't want color to serve me.
~ Robert Rauschenberg
Who was it you feared? Trace it, trace the fearing to a source. Not the mid-management collaborators, remember. Not those who only obey orders; just because the responsibility is everywhere doesn't mean that it's not somewhere. Trace it further, as far as you can. Scrutinize those in power behind the fear. Visualize them. There. Are women in the picture?
~ Robin Morgan
Very good. But your most insidious chronic problem is in the area of . . . how shall I put this precisely . . . subordination. You argue too much." "No, I don't," Miles began indignantly, then shut his mouth.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
But your most insidious chronic problem is in the area of . . . how shall I put this precisely . . . subordination. You argue too much." "No, I don't," Miles began indignantly, then shut his mouth.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Observing the behavior of individual fowl in a henhouse, we note that birds lower in rank are pecked by, and give way to, birds of higher rank. In an ideal case, there exists a linear order of rank with a top hen who pecks all the others. Those in the middle ranks peck those below them but respect all the hens above them. At the bottom there is a drudge who has to take it from everyone. (Adolf Remane, Vertebrates and Their Ways)
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
the European is to the other races of mankind, what man is to the lower animals;—he makes them subservient to his use; and when he cannot subdue, he destroys them.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
One is always a good master when one isn't the master
~ Alfred de Vigny
What is it about power, that it has to be higher up than everyone else? Can a man not be powerful on the ground floor?
~ Joe Abercrombie
Unity and respect, it seemed, were only for those who did as they were told.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Funny," said the Nail, back in his floppy slouch already. "Barbs don't sting so much from a man you can slap whenever you please.
~ Joe Abercrombie
your words are pure poison, Master Reynold,' said Lesthen. 'You and your kind suffer from the worst disease of humanity, the willingness to subordinate truth, to lock reason in chains and to rape the objective thought, in order to achieve your objective.
~ Joel Shepherd
How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How many kings are governed by their ministers — how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief? He, as it seems to me, who can see through the others, and possesses strength or skill enough to make their power or passions subservient to the execution of his own designs. January
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
godly power and godly love are related to one another neither through subordination nor dialectically. Rather, God's mightiness is understood as the power of his love. Only love is almighty. Then God's lordship is to be understood as the rule of his mercy and God's law is accordingly the law of his grace.
~ Eberhard Jüngel
We also live in a structured society in which building relationships is not as important as task accomplishment, in which it is appropriate and expected that the subordinate does more asking than telling, while the boss does more telling that asking. Having to ask is a sign of weakness or ignorance, so we avoid it as much as possible.
~ Edgar H. Schein
another person in that moment. My Here-and-now Humility can by itself trigger a very positive and genuine curiosity and interest in you. You will feel acknowledged, and it is precisely my temporary "subordination" that can create psychological safety for you, which can increase the chances that you will reveal what I need to know to get a task completed and begin to build our relationship constructively.
~ Edgar H. Schein
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
~ Edward Abbey
The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
~ Anonymous
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.
~ Ely Culbertson
Only the puppet masters were important. How the puppets moved—that told you what the puppet masters were doing.
~ Frank Herbert
If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.
~ Franz Kafka