Quotes About Authority

Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.

Speak truth to power.

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.