Quotes About Authority

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have."—John Rawls

NR: To have others work for you.

Great men have almost always shown themselves as ready to obey as they afterwards proved able to command." —Lord Mahon If you want great mentors, you have to become a great mentee. If you want to lead, you have to first learn to follow.

When you make a business, you're making a little world where you control the laws. It doesn't matter how things are done everywhere else. In your little world, you can make it like it should be.

La persona que despeja el camino es la que controla en última instancia su dirección, de la misma manera que el lienzo da forma al cuadro.

Without Their Permission.

First and foremost, there is a difference between being perceived as an expert and being one. In the context of business, the former is what sells product and the latter, relative to your "minimal customer base," is what creates good products and prevents returns.

Realize that bosses are supervisors, not slave masters.

Así que no podemos obedecer más que los demás para competir con ellos. Por tanto, tenemos que superar a los demás en cuanto a capacidad de liderazgo y de resolución de problemas…

Bad dog. Hit yourself with a newspaper and cut it out.

having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.

Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men."

He referred to Pope Paul III as "His Hellishness." Were not the pope and his associates at least members of the church? Yes, as much as spit, snot, pus, feces, urine, stench, scab, smallpox, ulcers, and syphilis are members of the body. Luther was never one to mince words.

Luther urged Christians to accept civic responsibility (so long as it did not violate the claims of Christ) for the sake of the neighbor. This mandate extended even to those manifestly violent offices of the sword: "If you see that there is a lack of hangmen, constables, judges, lords, princes, and you find that you are qualified, you should offer your services and seek the position.

It follows further that the forgiveness of guilt is not within the province of any human office or authority, be it pope, bishop, priest, or any other. Rather, it depends exclusively upon the word of Christ and your own faith. For Christ did not intend to base our comfort, our salvation, our confidence on human words or deeds but only upon himself, upon his words and deeds.

Think for yourself and question authority.

Criminals/sinners-from the Black Panthers to FBI chiefs and White House Officials-appear on the scene, make their play, and get dragged off stage, but the lawyers remain, administrating and profiting from the action and booking the next show.

Gerçekten kimse müritleri sevmez. Müritler zaten kendilerini sevmez; bu yüzden sürünürler. Ve liderler, kendilerine boyun eÄŸenleri küçümsemekten baÅŸka bir ÅŸey yapmazlar. Ä°ÅŸte bu yüzden üzerlerine böyle renkli utançlar yüklerler.

Think for yourself. Question authority.

When God's wise and loving rule over you is replaced with self-rule, other people become your subjects.

You are either speaking as a mini-king, seeking to establish your will in your relationships and circumstances; or you are speaking as an ambassador, seeking to be part of what the King is doing. There

The Bible is the only reliable source for these life-interpreting facts.

If political leaders choose which rights to give citizens, then there must be a caste of leaders who enjoy greater freedom than do the citizens who are the recipients of these "rights." That is, the rulers must stand on a higher plane from which they can hand down judgments about what rights are to be given to or withheld from the people below.

to presume that some people are fundamentally entitled to decide how much freedom others should enjoy. What Would It Mean if the State Did Create Freedom? The danger of confusing the state's protection of prepolitical rights on one hand, with its creation of rights/privileges on the other, becomes clear when we ask whether the state creates, say, a woman's right not to be raped.