Quotes About Authority

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.

You have all the influence you choose to have.

Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny.

God works on earth only through the prayers of believers and based on this basis, the destiny of this world is not in the hands of earthly kings and rulers but in the hands of prayer warriors.

Mather smiles at me through it, some of his tension softening before he drops his head in a small bow. "My queen, " he says in response.

Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means.

Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about him suggests a power of ruthless decision when he deems it necessary.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

The world is full of Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.

When you are clear on your calling, you command the universe to bid to your voice

When you give certain unnecessary people the reason and permission to oppose you, give them the power and strength to oppose you

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.