Quotes About Authority

A leader must always put the clan's interests before his own; it is the first thing you must learn. That is why self-control is so essential to a leader. The clan's survival is his responsibility. A leader has less freedom than a woman, Broud. He must do many things he may not want to. If necessary, he must even disown the son of his mate. Do you understand?

Hacía falta una fortaleza diferente para persuadir en vez de obligar. Talut se ganaba el respeto respetando a los demás.

South Holding, was the acknowledged leader of the Twenty-ninth Cave, but Summer Camp and

So the puppy (the future George III) won't be bewolfenbütteled, he says. I'll teach him whether to defy me. I say he shall be bewolfenbütteled, and like it! (George II on a proposal to marry his grandson to a princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Jean Plaidy.)

Imagine anyone asking Henry VIII or Elizabeth to settle a bill!

AGAMEMNON. Ay, it is Agamemnon, 'tis thy King That wakes thee; his the voice that strikes thine ear.

Those who hold power know very well the difference between a right and a permission … A right in a strict sense of the term gives access to the exercise of a power, at the expense of another power. A permission doesn't diminish the power of the one who gives it; it doesn't augment the power of the one who gets it. It makes his life easier, which is not nothing.

She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.

I asked him why he was a priest, and he said if you have to work for anyone, an absentee boss is best.

calling things by their right names is more than giving them an identity bracelet or a label, or a serial number. We summon a vision. Naming is power.

It is always a mistake to argue with a librarian.

She was a Roman Cardinal, chaste, but for the perfect choirboy.

Humans have given away all their power to a "they". You aren't able to fight the system because without the system none of you can survive.

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, where every element, however uneven, however incredible, is fastened to the next with perfect authority. The enchanted world shimmers but does not waver. A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first of his plays to accomplish this, The Tempest is enchantment's apotheosis.

Babies are frightening -- raw tyrants whose only kingdom is their own body.

Humans have given away all their power to a "they". You aren't able to fight the system because without the system none of you can survive. You made a world without alternatives, and now it is dying, and your new world already belongs to "they".' 'I

Take no notice of anyone you don't respect.

MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'this is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.

Man is born free but today everywhere he is in chains.

If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise his laws would minister to his passions..