Quotes About Authority

If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.

The person in power takes up the most space.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

Control is the source of strategic power.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

People tend to rally around power.

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today.

Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.

I would love to play the President. Give me the suit, give me the power, give me the oval office. That would be really fun.

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will.

Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

He can do most who has most power.