Quotes About Authority

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.

An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

It's to me one simple rule. Who imposes his will on the other man?

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket. "Where does it come from?" "From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.

Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.