Quotes About Authority

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

When you deny something your power is much more conspicuous than when you approve it.

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.

I think there's no question Comey abused power.

Never give power of attorney.

In the new organisation, power flows from expertise, not position.

You can't keep changing the rules based upon who holds political power.

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].