Quotes About Authority

If the guy has a gun, that's the power. He doesn't need to wave the gun; he just needs to point the gun in a very relaxed fashion.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

I don't think people in power have the potential to do anything like that to me. I feel as though as long as our music is available, folks are going to hear it.

Celebrities are the doormats to power.

If Russia had the same military power that America did, earth would be called Russia.

When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

Black is a colour of power and strength.

Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.

The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

Under our Constitution, presidents have something called 'veto power.

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a systemic risk.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

Imagination is an abuse of power.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.