Quotes About Authority

Every president makes the Oval Office theirs.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it.

Usually a captain will allow his bowler to set the field, while exercising overall control and maintaining the authority to step in if he sees fit.

Now, we can't stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time - if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.

What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?

It is crucial that the House exercises its oversight functions to ensure constitutional accountability of government agencies, especially as the bureaucracies associated with ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank flex their muscles and seek to expand their authority.

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

I respect the Congress's oversight responsibility.

But people never really "do as they're told." The difference between for-profit and volunteer organizations is that in the for-profit world people do get paid and so they are willing to give up some control to the boss, to accept at least some direction. But they don't give up all control. You couldn't pay them enough for that.

When communication happens only over the hierarchy lines, that's a priori evidence that the managers are trying to hold on to all control. This is not only inefficient but an insult to the people underneath.

Process standardization from on high is disempowerment. It is a direct result of fearful management, allergic to failure.

The gun was like his guitar: a thing that had power because of the hole in the middle. Maybe like Ingersoll, too, for that matter.

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

Like unmixed wine, the dictatorship had a taste that was intoxicating and perilous.

Only a few prefer liberty—the majority seek nothing more than fair masters. Sallust, Histories

The state had the right to know everything, for the Romans believed that even "personal tastes and appetites should be subject to surveillance and review."4 It was knowledge, intrusive knowledge, that provided the Republic with its surest foundations.

Prohibitions, trust me, only encourage bad behaviour.

Vast and implacable, like a kraken of the deep undisturbed by storms raging across the ocean surface, the apparatus of empire still coiled its prodigious tentacles, ready to flex and squeeze its victims tightly, as it had ever done.

In Fourth Generation war, the state loses its monopoly on war. All over the world,

Macht is uitgesteld geweld, gezag is uitgestald geweld.

And that we, far from being its authors, or its operators, or even its slaves (for slaves are agents who can harbour hopes, however faint, that one day a Moses or a Spartacus will set them free), were no more than actions and commands within its key-chains.