Quotes About Authority

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

Evan Price is not a man to be questioned. He is a man who will question you.

He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.

It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.

If men were angels, there would be no need of government.

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

Let's think about how we can bring economic development, let's see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China.

No man will ever be a big executive who feels that he must, either openly or under cover, follow up every order he gives and see that it is done-nor will he ever develop a capable assistant.

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

My department is not too big for one man, because I'm Superman.

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.

When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.

I bet your mom would let me." -Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.