Quotes About Authority

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

Few men are admired by their servants.

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.

Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.

For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.