Quotes About Authority

If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist on a diet of raw vegetables, you would find a new golf instructor. However, when gurus make demands of this kind, many of their students simply do as directed.

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

I don't think I have ever been out of control.

The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.

There is only one right in the world and that right is one's own strength.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.

It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, undisputed rights.

The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.

Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they understand and respect.