Quotes About Authority

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

No matter how lofty you are in your department, the responsibility for what your lowliest assistant is doing is yours.

I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us.

We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.

Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.

Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

We don't claim to be infallible. I don't claim to be giving you truths from on high.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.

I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define.

The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.

I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.