Quotes About Authority

Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

Good kings are slaves, and their people are free.

Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman.

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

How rude for the created to tell the Creator "I wasn't worth it. You didn't do a good job when you made me. I wasn't worth dying for." You don't get a choice! He's the one who gets to decide.

When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

I feel really good in the teacher role.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

Either the law exists, or it does not.

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

A good king is a public servant.

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.