Quotes About Authority

You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.

Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system.

By the power of the superglue beer sword, I designate you my driver!

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.

Power is as power does.

I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.

All power corrupts but some must govern.

Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.

Content is an obstacle to the exercise of power.

I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power?... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'

Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.

Money is just another word for power.

If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

The more power that we have, the less human we are.