Quotes About Authority

Ah, Azalea," said the King. "He's not going to be the one proposing." The springs in Azalea's feet went poioioing . "Sorry?" she said. "You outrank him, you know." The King shifted, uncomfortable. "It would be highly inappropriate for him to propose to you . The Delchastrian queen had to propose-" "I will do no such thing!" said Azalea.

And," said the Keeper, his eyes cold. "You are never to refuse me another dance again.

Bramble: Your afraid of the King. Admit it. Mr. Bradford: My lady, who isn't?

Wait - Miss Bramble-" "Don't call me that!" said Azalea. Something, perhaps hurt, flickered through Mr. Bradford's soft eyes. "Princess Bramble," he said.

Don't you DARE tell me how to eat a chocolate!

It is the pinnacle of arrogance to assume that whatever it is that "the experts" believe now is in fact the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Scientists have believed and public health officials have promoted many wrong things over the years, for both honorable, and not so honorable reasons. Sometimes the public health message is dead wrong.

John Edward Acton in 1887. 'Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

No leader on earth can compete with the leadership of God.

it feels as if this big tree must have a direct connection to whoever is in charge.

It also takes allowing yourself to not take Billy's behavior personally or as disrespect to you as the authority figure. When a child (or adult) is in this state, no one else matters. It is a mindset about protecting the self. A teacher's ability to be "successful" with Billy comes through her ability to connect with him, despite her own internal reactions. Love is about taking the higher road.

She's right, of course. My mother usually is. She's a librarian.

The only sharks I'm afraid of are the ones that wear three-piece suits and write memos.

the police, that shield of civilization...

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free from their authority.

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

Cuando se podía establecer una conexión inmediata entre el jefe del Estado y el sargento más novato de la línea del frente, las decisiones meditadas de toda la cadena de mando podían evaporarse por unas cuantas frases imprudentes y torpes.

Mejor reinar en el infierno que ser esclavos en el Cielo!».

the art of creating power

el ejército jominiano era un grupo de hombres convertidos en instrumentos de la voluntad del general a fuerza de disciplina e instrucción.

The state's authority would come from one of three sources: tradition, bureaucracy, or charisma.

It is the art of creating power.

He told his commanders that war could not be "conducted on a green table" and was prepared to delegate authority so that they could respond to situations as they found them rather than how the high command expected them to be. He distrusted generalities and fixed precepts. The important thing was to keep the objective in view while accepting the need for "practical adaptation.

La persuasión exigía utilizar palabras convincentes: de los que saben pero no tienen «el poder para expresarlo claramente», bien se puede decir que no saben nada.