authority and control Quotes

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

You're a Good Little Slave

Words are good servants but bad masters.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an artist and a gallery manager], to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.