Quotes About Authority

When the interests of mankind are at stake, they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves.

How can you say that princes have the greatest power of subduing their enemies, when they are sensible that all are their enemies, who are subject to their rule?

but the banging was fascist—a sound conveying force and authority—and I knew I would have to answer.

Nothing is more frightening than a law that has never been enforced. When the authorities want to throw someone in jail, all they have to do is suddenly arrest him for breaking a law that no one has bothered to obey yet.

In the final analysis,power is a misunderstanding: you think you know then you realize you have made a thumping mistake.

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Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society.

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.

blind obedience and unquestioning discipline.

the relationship between London and the rest of the country was described by Tony Travers of the London School of Economics, perhaps the supreme authority on the workings of modern-day London, as 'a bit like a relationship between a grumpy couple. They know they've got to be together, but they always sort of see each other's weaknesses more clearly than anybody else would'.

He had demonstrated decisively, over the course of a halfcentury, that "by using money like a heavy club," an individual could, with the mass media as a loudspeaker, make his voice heard in every corner of the nation.

Dads had favourite armchairs in which they sat like starship captains, issuing orders and receiving cups of tea and shouting at the news without fear of contradiction.

you know, if I ruled the world, which I fully intend to do one day by the way, first thing I'd do...

From David Niven's autobiography, Bring on the Empty Horses. Director Mike Curtiz to David Niven & Errol Flynn: "You lousy bums, you and your stinking language, you think I know fuck nothing, well let me tell you— I know FUCK ALL!

When you are a senior boy in an English Public School, you perhaps reach the pinnacle of your self-importance.

committees can criticize, but they cannot create.

Never summon people to your office; it frightens them. Instead, go to see them in their offices, unannounced. A boss who never wanders about his agency becomes an invisible hermit. 3

The final test of a leader is the feeling you have when you leave his presence after a conference. Have you a feeling of uplift and confidence?' Alcoholics

Giving out the titles reminds me of Louis XIV: 'Every time I give someone a title, I make a hundred people angry and one person ungrateful.

The hopeful self serves as a lifesaving antidote to the bitter and envious wounded self, which often becomes committed to destroying the rejecting aspects of the parents or other adults in positions of authority.

biblical inerrancy.

The Bible cannot be the primary source of knowledge and criterion of truth in all areas of importance.

But there's nothing wrong with being scared. I think everyone's a little scared. Even the government.

That was the only sign he ever promised to give the Jews. They were always asking for miracles and signs. He said, "I'll give you no sign but the sign of Jonah, three days and three nights in the belly of the earth and then resurrection" – that is the proof of the Son of God's authority to cleanse his temple.