Quotes About Authority

When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power.

Poor Ike. He'll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.

Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power.

Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.

Power and control are more dangerous than any weapons.

With kings and queens inside his bag. Hulaki was a man of power.

Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power.

When your position is one of peace, then you're truly powerful.

Olympus is still a patriarchy. Zeus heads his royal household as jealously as Jehovah rules his harem of dull, harp-playing angels. Both are templates for order on earth, don't you think?

The world is fast becoming a corporate caliphate

absolute power is corrupting

To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours.

There is a weird power in a spoken word.

Your mind is your master.

It is a State of Mind... and am the president

Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character.

You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire.""And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.

People with power listen less carefully, and have difficulty taking into account what others already know.

Men with power had the responsibility to know what was best, and they so rarely did.

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.

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

In my experience, influence is power.