# Quote — Fredric Brown, Rogue in Space

> I want men who, like you, would not take orders even if I should give them. I do not want to be a god, Crag, even though I have some powers beyond mankind’s; I would not let my new world be colonized by people who might even be tempted to obey me.

- Author: [Fredric Brown](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-brown.md)
- Book: [Rogue in Space](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-brown/rogue-in-space.md)
- Page: 406
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fredric_Brown#Rogue_in_Space_(1957)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-brown/rogue-in-space/i-want-men

## More from this book

> It was not the fashion for politicians who aspired to elective office to live ostentatiously, no matter how much money they had. If they loved luxury—and most of them did—they indulged that love in ways less publicly obvious than by living in mansions. The public believes what it thinks it sees.

p. 364 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-brown/rogue-in-space/it-was-not.md)