Quotes About Authority

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

I run my operation like a family business. I sign every check, every receipt, I'm not tough, but I'm strong.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

Arrogance follows distribution strength.

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

I started understanding that my strength is my gentleness. A leader isn't a dictator, a leader is a servant.

We don't want to use our strength, but you have to have our strength.

There is no strength without justice.

It's essential for a president to show strength from the very beginning, to make it very clear what is acceptable and not acceptable.

If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

As a king can wear a crown, a crown can also weary a king.