Quotes About Authority

A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it

In his world, people never questioned him. And it was a good place to be, his world. Apparently she hadn't gotten the memo.

My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but they kept me forever fixated on the very idea of a taboo.

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance.

Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.

I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the director and the necessity of the actor to push back and find their own voice.

Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

I think if you serve under John Kelly your morale is going to be good.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.