Quotes About Authority

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

It's absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.

One of the epidemics in our industry is the abuse of power.

Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

Power is competence.

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.

When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.

When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.

The paternalism of the Conservative party is breathtaking.

I'm the elected sheriff, and I'm going to keep doing what the Constitution says I can do.

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

There simply aren't enough constitutional safeguards in place to protect against a rogue president.