Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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

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.

Wild beasts hate nets, and people hate their superiors.

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

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

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Their authority over their slaves renders them vain and imperious.

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

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

I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

You must either conquer and rule or lose and serve, suffer or triumph, and be the anvil or the hammer.

Slavery made the Negro as dependent upon the intelligence and foresight of his master as a soldier upon the will of his commander

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

It is better to be the slave of a master than to be a slave of a slave.

How many, even of the better sort, would choose to be slaves to those above them, provided they might exercise an arbitrary and tyrannical rule over all below them?

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

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.

The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.

Authority is quite degrading.