Quotes About Authority

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.

Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

As the government is, such will be the man.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name

Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

Stern men with empires in their brains.

I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister.

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.