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Quotes About Authority

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.
~ Jeff Bridges
Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.
~ Leonard J. V. Compagno
I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.
~ Leslie Ford
Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
~ Sophocles
It appears to me that men are trying to speak for God instead of letting God speak for himself.
~ Theodore M. Burton
No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
~ Thomas a Kempis
No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers.
~ Thomas Hodgskin
A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
God created women only to tame men.
~ Voltaire
He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.
~ Voltaire
The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings.
~ Christopher Marlowe
When we undertake to cover our sins, . . . behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man
~ Dallin H. Oaks
many men have too much Free-will, and take to themselves too free liberty now a days to advance and maintain free will.
~ Daniel Featley
You can measure a man's worth by the breed of person he throws out of his office.
~ Dave Sim
I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
~ Edmund Burke
Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how
~ Elbert Hubbard
What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with the illusion that he follows his own decisions and opinions.
~ Erich Fromm
Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
~ Euripides
I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.
~ Evelyn Keyes