Quotes About Authority

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

The combination of royal, aristocratic, and democratic power makes only a democracy.

He needs to respect you and know you mean business, but it's not your business to be mean.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

The opinion of the strongest is always the best.

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

By becoming emperor, I would once more put myself above my state.

Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

Ike was like a giant umbrella. He absorbed what was coming down from above, shielded his commanders from higher authority, and about them to fight the war without excessive second-guessing.

Without him nothing was done, and through him everything was done, and the king trusted him more than any other.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Fascism is theater.

Personally, I believe the Koran is more trustworthy than Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, he said" - Jean Genet, Jean Genet in Tangier

Personally, I believe the Koran is more trustworthy than Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, he said

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Dès qu'on entre en lutte contre la guerre, on entre en lutte contre le gouvernement.

O Dieu, si tu veux que jamais plus femme n'élève la voix, crée enfin un homme adulte!

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

You have named him, not I.

You are Emperor, my lord, and yet you weep?