Quotes About Authority

There is so much power at your fingertips! Use it!

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

All power is from within and therefore under our control

For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

Power wears out those who do not have it.

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.

So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.

Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness. The power that you've heard so much about. The power that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.