Quotes About Authority

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.

The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master: I take the responsibility of my acts: The only arbiter I acknowledge is the sword: If any one denies my right, let him try conclusions with me.

For too long, I equated leadership with a position. I thought leaders were presidents or politicians or celebrities or four-star generals with a horse and sword.

Shortly after the appointment of Britain's first-ever female police constable with officials powers of arrest, the Home Office declared that women could not be sworn in as police officers because they were not deemed 'proper persons'. It makes you wonder what those Home Office officials would say now to having a female Home Secretary.

A board constituted as the board of Sydney Hospital is constituted is not a suitable body to have control of an institute of medical research.

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Don't be guilty of ignoring symptoms of rebellion when your children are small. Don't simply excuse it as a stage they are going through and think that they will grow out of it. If you ignore it when they are small, you won't be able to handle it when they get older and the rebellion has had time to develop into a strong force.

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.

If Xi Jinping is the world's most powerful man, conventional wisdom puts Vladimir Putin a close second. He's made his own bare-chested virility synonymous with a resurgent Russia.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever.

Assad is the president of Syria. He enjoys fairly effective control over his country.

In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

Jeb Bush is the foremost authority on education reform in the Republican Party, and I will look to reform the ballooning costs of our higher education system along the lines that he has advocated.

The system under which we live is owned and operated by people who do not deserve to run the world.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.