Quotes About Authority

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.

God is so angry. All that power, and so mean with it.

Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things.

Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.

It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.

Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

Power educates the potentate.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

Wherever there is power there is age.

I'm scared of people with power making the decision.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

This is politics. People in power never have to play by the same rules.

Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.

It's the most ambitious power grab I've ever witnessed.

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

My interest is in power. How power works.

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

If you're going to offer a position of great power and importance to somebody, you're not gonna do that publicly unless you know they're gonna accept it, because to refuse it is a rebuke.