Quotes About Authority

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

Power always works from the corner office.

Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

Power rests in tranquillity.

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

Donald Trump is an instrument of a Power bigger than himself, and bigger than all of the power that's in America today, or in the world today.

Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

Those carried away by power are soon carried away.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called.

In this world, all power rests upon force.

There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do.

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.

I'm not God, don't intend to be and hope I never have that much power.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

Nothing has any power except the power that you give it.