Quotes About Authority

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view.

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Aslan's instructions always work; there are no exceptions.

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

David Stern is the mastermind behind a lot of stuff, he controls a lot of stuff, he dictates a lot of stuff so he's going to make himself look good.

My father was a man very much like Arthur Winslow. He was a very stern man and very much the authoritarian figure.

I played a loving but stern figure of authority and it seems the kids who write me want that kind of a parent instead of one who is a 'pal' to them.

I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode - with me as the evil stepmother!

I made my England debut against Japan in 2013. Hope Powell, our manager at the time, always demanded the best. She had quite a stern approach... She'd look at you over her glasses sometimes.

You have to be stern in your voice, because if you are in there wavering and wobbling and fumbling over words, all the guys are going to be like, 'What is this guy doing in here, Coach? Get him out. Get someone else in.'

Steve Bannon puts himself above everything.

In practice, presidents have typically tended to think of themselves not just as stewards for their party, but also of the presidency itself - preserving the full scope of its constitutional power for their successors is part of their job.