Quotes About Authority

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.

People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.

The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument.

To rule by knowledge ravages the country.

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

In order to do an empowerment, a person obviously has to be highly empowered, have the power, and also have the structural knowledge of how to transfer it to someone else.

Knowledge itself is power

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope Self.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them.

I shall be an autocrat that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me that's his.

Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.

It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Popularity is not leadership.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill.