Quotes About Authority

The king is the man who can.

There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.

Jesus wants men who will rule well.

A kingdom always includes three fundamental components: a ruler, a realm of subjects who fall under his rule, and the rules or governances.

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.

Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.

I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.

Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.

I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.

Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.