Quotes About Authority

To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant, and even worse than this, he is both!

Men like the kings and the queens because men are weak! No strong man accepts any king or queen!

Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!

The guy who's in charge isn't going to be the front man, ever.

By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

But if God is gone and man is no longer master, then who is master?

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men.

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.

Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.