Quotes About Authority

Speaking doesn´t make you a Leader, but if you have Leadership skills, people want to hear you speak.

Advising gives a great illusion of superiority

Always act like you are the king of your own world that you created on the day of your birth. Enjoy your kingdom.

The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts.

True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.

Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

That's through intelligence, not through ignorance, believe me. Because some of the things that they're asking you to do [in the Army] and be politically correct about are ridiculous.

The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.

Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?

He who gives you the diameter of your knowledge,presc ribes the circumference of your activities.