Quotes About Authority

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.

Nobody says anything to me now when it comes to Japanese. They actually ask me things. I now have power!

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.

Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.

We want very good leaders who have a lot of power.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

Christ is the source of all true priesthood authority and power on earth. It is His work, in which we are privileged to assist.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.

Simply stated, power is the ability to get things done.