Quotes About Authority

If you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?

She thought that here in el norte, she'd have to worry more about Border Patrol, about the possibility of Luca being taken from her, and less about random men with guns enforcing their own decrees.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

It is not self defining but by You

contemporaine. Aristote plaide déjà pour un régime républicain où l'autorité s'exerce par la loi et non par la force. Athènes, modèle premier de la démocratie, conjure le recours à la violence. Et Confucius, dans la Chine ancienne, plaide pour la loi liant harmonieusement et pacifiquement l'homme à la nature. C'est à partir de la Renaissance qu'en Occident analyses et énergies convergent pour juguler le

Ain't no one leavin' this party 'til I do.

When no one knows who is the expert, and the expert for whatever reason is unwilling to speak up, expertise is lost.

I can't believe he's making you wait till January for an appointment." "I could threaten to bomb the school. That'd get me in quicker.

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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Just because you have a thought, doesn't make you a thought leader!

Allegiance to any spiritual teaching or teacher—any outside authority—is the most treacherous beast in the jungle.

When you say a word—negative or positive—you release powerful forces. Every word you say has power. There is no such thing as a powerless word. —Marianne Williamson

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

Style would make you friends, inspire loyalty and devotion, spawn a hundred imitators. It would make you enemies, unleash jealousy and fear, bring down the brute force of authority. The one thing style would never leave you was neutral. As King KASE 2 would say in the movie Style Wars, "When they see you got a vicious style, they wanna get loose about it. And that's what keeps it going.

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

Achieving simplicity begins with the basic notion that you're the captain of your fate: you are in control, steer the rudder, pull the lever, flip the switch, and call the shots.

I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.

If anything was certain, it was that there would always be people looking for someone to tell them what to believe in and what to do.