Quotes About Authority

These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

If you work for money, you give the power to your employer. If your money works for you, you keep and control the power.

He who eats my bread, does my will.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.

Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

I would rather obey than work miracles.

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.