Quotes About Authority

SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

It's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence.

Change is not about putting a different kind of people in power but a different kind of power in people.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.

For we put the power in the people.

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

All political power is a trust.

Nothing is more stylish than power.

Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.

What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.

To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

I struggled more with my identity. Let's be honest - early on in my first records, I didn't have the power to tell David Foster or other producers what to do.

Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives.

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

Culture follows power.