Quotes About Authority

We all know the personal relationship between Michel Platini and President Blatter. It was like a mentor and protege, or even father and son.

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

I have built my organization upon fear.

I scorn their hatred, if they do but fear me

Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

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

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

Social control is best managed through fear.

He who fears God fears no man.

Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.

Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.