Quotes About Authority

The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that power, and even to be aware of that power.

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.

Where there's fear, there is power.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.

Power interrupts. Uninterruptible power interrupts absolutely.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

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Power is intoxicating.

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.

Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

Power always brings with it responsibility.

Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College - and if you're going to start divvying up the power of each state's elections, you are destroying state sovereignty.

There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.