Quotes About Authority

When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence... defines what can and cannot be done to her.

Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.

Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

Who owns a man, Durnik?" the blond young man asked sadly. "The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.