Quotes About Authority

Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.

When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty

Here's a man who was twice elected to the most powerful position on Earth despite needing a TelePrompTer to correctly identify what year it was.

The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.

But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.

A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so.

A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

No man is competent to manage another.

I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.