Rupert Everett Quotes

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

Wild beasts hate nets, and people hate their superiors.

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

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

I've never been any good with authority.

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.

He who demands does not command.

I always remember I'm the monkey and he's the organ-grinder.

They must be governed by and be subordinate to you.

… a system under which a few supposedly superior intellects, self-appointed, would direct the mating and the movements of the mass of mankind.

The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.