Quotes About Authority

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief

The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.

If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

Great men can't be ruled.

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.