Quotes About Authority

However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

Reputation is the road to power

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

Each state enjoys sovereign power.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

The power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion. It makes one a god.

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.