Quotes About Authority

There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.

Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.

[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

Obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.

You can become anything you want to be ... It's a matter of authority. Whatever a man's confidence, that's his capacity.

I want to dominate the man's world.

You got responsibilities when you're a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who're you going to lead?

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.