Quotes About Authority

Those are the men, ' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.

Kill someone on the behalf of yourself, you get deemed a murderer. Kill someone on behalf of your Government, you get deemed a hero.

In times of war, the law falls s

War made the state, and the state made war

-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood

Nobody could rule this world merely by peace.

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.

War is too important to be left to the generals

Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never happened, nor can there be, when you do not want to leave sovereign

What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists?

Treason is a matter of the date, Proctor

They don't want a princess. They want a war queen.

...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field

Soldiers of capitalism are the fathers of dissent.

Morality is decided by the victors

You cannot intimidate people with real bullets, but you can intimidate them with fake gun.

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and one will ever save you.

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.

Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation.

Sergeant Tin said it would be easier to just call you Corporal. She said you go back and forth, promoted one day and busted the next.