Quotes About Authority

They will pay. I am the Lord of the Morning

A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.

Elayne, she said softly as they resumed their climb, if we are caught, I swear that before they kill us, or do whatever they do, I will beg them on bended knees to let me stripe you from top to bottom with the stoutest switch I can find!

Lord Rand, Nynaeve snorted. That young man is growing too big for his breeches. When I get my hand on him, I'll lord him.

The trumpets of war shall sound at his footsteps, the ravens feed at his voice, and he shall wear a crown of swords.

It was easier to ask forgiveness, than permission.

He hadn't asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right.

Men listened closer to calm tones than to the loudest shouts, so long as firmness and certainty accompanied the calm.

She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did.

Anyone but Aes Sedai would have gaped at her. As it was, Romanda very nearly spluttered.

The mighty tell the lesser to dig in the mud and keep their own hands clean.

All women are Aes Sedai.

They want to own the world, but it seems you already own a people.

kneel and swear to the lord dragon, he said softly, or you will be knelt. Lord of Chaos

It is better to be the hammer than the nail.

Looking a queen is not enough, her mother had told her often, but a fine mind, a keen grasp of affairs, and a brave heart will go for nothing if people do not see you as a queen.

How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world. You can step down from a throne, and even if you behave like a farmer in a pigsty, some part in each of them will remember that you did descend from a throne. But if they see only a young man first, a country man, they will resent him stepping up to his throne later, whatever his right, whatever his power.

A general who draws his sword has put aside his baton and become a common soldier.

As my Lord says, my Lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my Lord, for instructing me.

power often grew from others deciding that you already had power, and an appearance of wealth could give that.

there was nothing a woman liked better than finding men who were relaxing, then giving them orders.

we are the hare, and it is the hounds who dictate the chase.

It was always a mistake to choose a pillow-friend who did not wear the shawl. Especially if you were fool enough to let her take the lead.

WOULD YOU UNLEASH THE BALEFIRE IN MY SERVICE, DEMANDRED?