Quotes About Authority

A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes."

I'd want to have the power of mind control. If I had that one skill you'd always see at the bank loading up bags full of cash.

Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects.

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.

Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so.

All power is His and within His command.

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.

Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.

The reputation of power IS power.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.