Quotes About Authority

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

What has gone wrong with the men who are ruling I'd like to know who they think they are fooling They told us that torture was over and gone but everyone knows the same torture goes on

Because I fear God, I have no man to fear.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

Men will allow God to be everywhere except on his Throne

All men would be tyrants if they could.