Quotes About Authority

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.

Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

It's not like we wanted to get really political in terms of specific causes, but I think a lot of the lyrics deal with paranoia and feeling like "the man" is in control somehow.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.

I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.