Quotes About Authority

No, gentlemen, you don't take a post of this sort and then resign when the man who has the constitutional responsibility to make decisions makes one you don't like.

love to lead, must cede control to someone else. I

Once upon a time there was a king and queen who thought they were sneaky.

Mom, you're not going to let him name him, are you? That's favoritism, and I'll be traumatized if you do.

As Abraham Lincoln reportedly put it, "nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

It is so mysterious to want to suppress women. It is even more mysterious when women want to suppress women. I can only think we are so very powerful that we need to be suppressed all the time.

The truth was her husband had the final word because he wrote words and then he put full stops at the end of them. She knew this, but what did his wife know?

Obedience is the performance of a request, but submission comes from the heart.

a lack of influence is of course its own kind of influence.

the moment you follow someone else, you cease to be your own leader.

conflicting metamessages inherent in giving help become especially apparent when people are in a hierarchical relationship to each other by virtue of their jobs. Just as parents are often frustrated in attempts to be their children's "friends," so bosses who try to give friendly advice to subordinates may find that their words, intended symmetrically, are interpreted through an asymmetrical filter.

Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.

Martin had lived and worked in Marietta, Montana, long enough to grasp the importance of proper winter footwear. But today she needed the height and authority that came with heels. One didn't tell one's best friend and business partner—the person responsible for Krista moving halfway across

had lived and worked in Marietta, Montana, long enough to grasp the importance of proper winter footwear. But today she needed the height and authority that came with heels. One didn't tell one's best friend and business partner—

Wasn't that the way of things now? Everybody thought they were better at policing than cops. Cops were suddenly the enemy.

We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken.

words are what give us power, that without words we are nothing, we do not exist.

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

God made the ability to feel pain. He didn't have to, you know. He made the ability to feel pain and He also made it possible to feel joy. Should I hate Him for allowing one and praise Him for allowing the other? God knew what He was doing. I may not always agree, but that is part of what respecting His authority means." She

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates ' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Children are easily taught, for they readily accept and believe lies told by their elders.

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.

Astands for all possibilities, absolute, authority, affluence, and abundance. The true nature of our ground state and that of the universe is that it is a field of all possibilities. In our most primordial form, we are a field of all possibilities.

Kings were no better than murderers, the only difference being that they had a legal monopoly on killing.