Quotes About Authority

That was the trouble with explaining with words. If you explained with gunpowder, people listened.

T'Pol." Archer made his voice sting with command. "You're coming dangerously close to violating a rule of the bridge. Don't nag the captain.

And royalty are immune from homicidal tendencies? Study your history, Stoker. I think you will discover that is how most of them became royal in the first place.

I am an adult person who is not answerable to children.

Believe me when I tell you, a royal would never soil their hands when there are minions who will gladly do the deed for them. They don't handle money, they don't knock on doors—for the love of Christ, Veronica, they scarcely even wipe their own—

I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me to empty the dishwasher, I like to wait a little bit, you know, not hop up and do it right away, because then it feels more like my own idea. That's a little problematic when you have an actual boss.

The way two people can end up in the same place, find each other in a crowd, and change their lives and the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. And fate gives love some authority. Like it's been stamped with approval from above, if you believe in above. A godly green light. Some destined significance .

A person who says "it's your decision" is informing you that your decision sucks.

the mind is a tyrant

What Dino spent most of his time doing was hiring and firing new managers. Since he ditched William Tiero three-plus years ago, he just want through these poor guys like you go through a bag of M&M's when you've got your period. Consume, and on the the next.

We had a humiliating and lengthy wait at a DONT WALK sign with not a car in sight for miles. Dad was a press about jaywalking. Or maybe he just like to stare down what he'd testily called the "grammatical error sanctioned by the state." There is, of course, no apostrophe in the DONT WALK sign.

Be dangerous, darling, for the whole world rises and falls at your feet.

Ten men shouting will control ten thousand who choose to remain silent.

It takes courage to share your gifting, but when you do, you have authority and a life changing attitude

A leader is a lamp not just a sign board.

Be the leader, not the boss.

Leadership is influence

Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act.

A mindset that understands order, is a mindset that can understand leadership.

A good leader is not elected, he is appointed.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

No one of real intelligence will accept anything just because some authority declares it be so. Don't accept the truth of anything you have not confirmed for yourself.

To stop oppression, you will first end the tyranny of the oppressors.

Influence can be the worst gun nowadays.