Quotes About Authority

Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.

The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.

Power is never measured by what you can give but by what you can actually take!

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

Power is the recognition of necessity.

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a member of this group has no clout with the state.

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

Volumes in the series on Lyndon Johnson, including Master of the Senate and The Path Power, describe how Johnson created resources out of nothing and built a substantial power base.

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.

Power's twin is responsibility.

Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.

Whence has come thy lasting power.

What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under the Constitution, Article I, all legislative authority is vested in Congress.

What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.