Quotes About Authority

Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.

More than power is respect. Fortunate are those who command it.

They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power.

The power in people is stronger than people in power.

Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.

In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule.

Computers are like Old Testament gods

Honor, ' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

The worship of power is an old religion.

Knowledge is not made for understanding it is made for cutting.

Experts are by definition the servants of those in power: they don't really THINK, they just apply their knowledge to problems defined by the powerful.

The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)

The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.

Ineffective leadership, is the plight of followers who anoint power to the autocratic persons who's visions are not founded but are rather arbitrary in their nature.

People have the power we give them. Words have the power we give them.

People who live on the devil's territory are automatically under his power

You can call anyone you want a traitor as long as you're the one holding the pen.

No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse

Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.

There are no moral obligations in the game of empire.

Power is given to those who reach to take it & claimed by those who will stop at nothing to fulfill what they believe is their birthright.

Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!

The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.

Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.