Quotes About Authority

Tell him your parents have strictly forbidden you to play for anything but nuts.

Teachers deserve to helm every committee determining school operations rather than policymakers who proclaim what should happen in the classroom despite never having taught in one.

He who has a partner has a master.

At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it. It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay double and it is done directly

But the kings of modern times, restrained by the limits of mere probability, have neither courage nor desire. They fear the eat that hears their orders, and the eye that scrutinizes their actions.

Già, siete barone per i domestici, signore per i giornalisti, cittadino per i vostri elettori. Sono sfumature che si addicono assai a un governo costituzionale. Capisco perfettamente.

God moves by His Word. He does things by speaking His Word.

Most Mistress no more free do what they want than I is or Pork is or ary colored.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Leadership never ascends from the pew to the pulpit, but invariably descends from the pulpit to the pew.

A human being who has mastered the self cannot be dominated by any other person; to the contrary, there is a strong tendency for others to seek to emulate and follow such a master, because they intuitively recognize the value of self-control.

But further, Hobbesian individualism required that traditional independent social authorities be eliminated or suppressed. Benjamin Constant, who was a keen observer of the French Revolution, explained why: "The interests and memories which spring from local customs contain a germ of resistance which is so distasteful to authority that it hastens to uproot it. Authority finds private individuals easier game: its enormous weight can flatten them out effortlessly as if they were so much sand.

Don't push me woman," Casey warned, steering her weaving form down the hall. "I'm not as nice as Kaiser. You tease me and I'll nail you in a heartbeat.

Shaney is a prince?" Sara squeaked the question. "Why does no one tell me these things? This is my kingdom, but I don't know what's going on.

primicerius? He was young, it was

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we --we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

experts in my field have acknowledged that the need to have control over another human being was an example of abuse.

It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.

What a ghastly thing to have sensitive, helpless human beings absolutely in the power of other human beings! Absolute, unquestioned power! Nobody can stand that. It's cold poison. How many wardens of prisons are driven sadistically mad with it!

liberty means the only lasting road to order and discipline and self-control. Once again, for the thousandth time, people needed to be reminded that the reign of the tyrant who imposes laws on human souls from the outside (even though that tyrant intends nothing but the best for his subjects and be called "teacher"), produces smothered rebellion,