Quotes About Authority

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

With Jove I begin.

Why didn't you tell us the first day?" And Jolly goes, "Well, nobody told me—I didn't know—" She goes, "Nobody told me. You know?" And when she says this it's like a flat tire got fixed in my head and I suddenly see the sign of her life: "Nobody told me." I look in my brain and I make a brief list of who's sposed to tell you things. It's your folks and your teachers and your girlfriends and your coach if you have a sport.

There are some people who want to feel power over other people. I guess it makes them feel better about themselves if they have someone to look down upon.

People believe what they want to believe. They also believe what people in leadership tell them.

David was not obeying God, but it still wasn't Uzzah's place to touch the ark.

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Resulta asombroso y, como poco, moderno, que sea un dominante el que venga a quejarse de que el dominado no pone bastante de su parte…

Waking into a room, checking whether there are men in it, wanting to please them. Not talking to loud. Not being forceful. Not sitting with your legs splayed to be more comfortable. Not speaking with authority. Not talking about money. Not wanting a position of authority. Not seeking glory. Not laughing too loud. Not being too funny. Pleasing men is a complex art, which requires that one should eliminate anything remotely concerned with power.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their pains, while those who relied only upon theories and scholarship were obviously hunting the shadow, not the substance.

Where there are laws, innocence need not tremble.

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

If a king goes mad, and runs about trying to find the king of his country, he will never find him, because he is the king himself.

We've never had kings in Wadingburn, and I don't intend for us to start now.

Arthur is smart and he has words, but so do I. I stood there arguing with him. Then, in the middle of a sentence, he said sharply, "I'll decide when the vacation is over." I stared at him. I don't know what he saw in my face, but his own softened perceptibly. Very quietly he said, "It doesn't mean what it meant when you were young.

if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.

Nothing is an absolute reality, all is permitted.

Ni? ni resni?no, vse je dovoljeno.

Nada es verdadero, todo está permitido!

Nothing is true; everything is permitted

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

One man with a gun can control a hundred without one.