Quotes About Authority

As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.

There is always room for the man of force.

People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.

Those who fear men like laws.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!

The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse.

Man is the being who, from cradle to grave has to abide by either his man-made laws or heavenly law.

The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.

I can make men follow me to hell.

Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.

A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.

Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

That she does not crouch today where St Paul tried to bind her, she owes to the men who are grand and brave enough to ignore St Paul, and rise superior to his God.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.

The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.