Quotes About Authority

Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.

To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.

The rabbis paled. I'd managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.

MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.

Everybody's got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don't got is power.

Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right.

People, particularly big men carrying big rifles, don't expect lip from a scrawny thing like me. They always look a bit dazed when they get it.

The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.

The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

Mack Bolan was simply a man who could command himself.

Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!