Quotes About Authority

Power comes with a price. It's a burden. It demands sacrifice.

The captain was not the tip of a pyramid, as most people thought; in fact it was just the reverse: he was the spindle on which everything else balanced.

politics are the curse of the Navy!

if you were to lead successfully, whether a kingdom or a ship's company, the only standards worth bothering with were those you set yourself; those of others were—well, those of the mob; those who were led, who had neither the ability nor the courage to sit alone and make the decisions.

Corruption, my boy, makes the world go round.

What he learned from his favorite teacher was not obedience to authority but delight in the exercise of his mind.

The real problem with relying on experts, however, is not that they are appreciably worse than nonexperts, but rather that because they are experts we tend to consult only one at a time.

In other words, our perceptions of who influences us may say more about social and hierarchical relations than influence per se.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

Arbitrary rules restrict and inhibit you. Knowing why sets you free.

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

Engage with the Bible. Meditate on it day and night. Think and rethink about God's Word. Let it be your guide. Make it your go-to book for questions. Let it be the ultimate authority in your life.

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

I do situations and make fun of authority and life.

To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction of life.

I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?

A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.