Quotes About Authority

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

The worship of power is an old religion.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

When the People contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their Victory but new Masters.

Power and honour don't share the same bed,

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

Governments, churches, and educational institutes, once the keepers of order and social enlightenment, are now scrambling to remain relevant as our collective consciousness and connectivity grows.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.

If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe.

My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.

The best ethics course is to handcuff one of the bastards.

Those in authority should take appropriate precautions to protect our citizens. But we will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms.

There ought to be limits to freedom.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power

Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another.