Quotes About Authority

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

My Father is the ruler of all the world, and is expressing His directing power through me

And Irene hadn't broken the letter of any ordinances – she hoped. She'd just jumped up and down on the spirit of them, then taken them down a dark alley and made some pointed suggestions at knife-point.

Management positions always come with ulcers attached.

Do you doubt the Ten, my lord?

The world is changing," Irene said quietly. "We're working to make that chang ehappen - so perhaps someday you can trust a Fae. I'm aware of what's at stake, but if we succeed, then we're going to have to change as well. If you want to actually create peace, then we have to trust each other. No magical bindings, no blackmail, no family authority, just each other's given word. I'm not saying that we have to trust blindly. But automatic mistrust is a luxury we can no longer afford.

Never trust any ruler, Librarian. They're all untrustworthy.

Ac?iuni ilegale? f?cu Silver, întorcându-se c?tre servitorul s?u. Johnson! Am comis eu vreo ilegalitate? Johnson î?i privi ceasul. -Nu în ultimele trei minute, domnule.

Die Aufgabe einer Anführerin war ein Eimer voll Scheiße.

Tell the brat whatever you think will work. Just keep her within bounds, and then with luck we can all avoid unnecessary harshness. Also, hurry up and get over that pneumonia. We don't have time for sickbed drama. The letters from the Cardinal and from Ao Guang about the missing worlds are disturbing—we're still understaffed, and there's too much to do.

leader's authority is limited to giving her followers orders that they will actually obey.

a leader's authority is limited to giving her followers orders that they will actually obey.

But that was one of the perks of being higher-ranking: you could tell your juniors to cut back on the courtesy, while simultaneously being offended if you felt they were being too rude. A win-win situation, for the people on top.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

I AM SIXTEEN," Nat says, like maybe I've lost my hearing. "I can go in by myself. I am the warden's daughter.

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.

"My lige lady, generally," quod he,"Wommen desiren have sovereyneteeAs well over hir housbond as hir love."

Servant in love and lord in marriage.

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

El primer libro que habría que prohibir en el mundo sería un catálogo de libros prohibidos.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.

The United States could well declare unilaterally that this stage of the Vietnam war is over—that we have "won" in the sense that our Armed Forces are in control of most of the field and no potential enemy is in a position to establish its authority over South Vietnam.