Quotes About Authority

It was part of the beauty, but also the tragedy, of this sport that the spectators were the ultimate judges of who sat on the throne.

To Mayo, this meant "passing down the chain of command the handling of all details to the lowest link in the chain which could properly handle them," while keeping in hand matters of policy and strategic importance.

Nimitz kept avoiding the hands that attempted to steer him off the wing and into a crash boat. Finally, an eighteen-year-old seaman second class lost patience with the white-haired gentleman, and knowing neither his identity nor his rank, he shouted out, "Commander, if you would only get the hell out of the way, maybe we could get something done around here." Nimitz merely nodded and finally clambered into the waiting boat.

Halsey was a guy who got things done and King definitely liked and respected that quality.

Dac? lu?m în calcul potenÈ›ialele beneficii È™i recompense oferite de autoritate, dorinÈ›a de a dobândi È™i menÈ›ine un statut propriu È™i familiar s-a transformat în l?comie È™i dependen?? de munc?. Exist? b?rbaÈ›i pe care vacanÈ›ele îi deprim? ori pe care timpul liber îi streseaz?.

No trates de imponer la autoridad donde sólo se trata de la razón. VOLTAIRE

There is the mistaken belief that black people achieved power with independence (e.g., Malaya, Jamaica, Kenya), but a black man ruling a dependent state within the imperialist system has now power. He is simply an agent of the whites in the metropolis, with an army and a police force designed to maintain the imperialist way of things in that particular colonial area.

Ah what avails the sceptred race,Ah what the form divine!

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Unjust systems perpetuate themselves by means of institutionalized violence.

What makes you think you know more than the experts? (The answer is that you don't know more, you know less—which sometimes is a good thing.) Another

In some ways, it can be more difficult or risky for those in authority to question. In Hal Gregersen's study of business leaders who question, he found that they exhibited an unusual "blend of humility and confidence"15—they were humble enough to acknowledge a lack of knowledge, and confident enough to admit this in front of others.

questions challenge authority and disrupt established structures, processes, and systems, forcing people to have to at least think about doing something differently. To encourage or even allow questioning is to cede power

questions challenge authority and disrupt established structures, processes, and systems, forcing people to have to at least think about doing something differently.

Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it

His wife "ruled the roast," and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.

I wish to impress these matters upon you, because you are the eldest of your father's family. The oldest son should consider himself the second father of the family.

There were two kinds of people Grandpa didn't trust, a preacher and a cop. He'd say "They both think they're sanctified in everything they do.

Religion survives by telling us we need to fall in line or some horrible fate will befall us.

who do not trust Jesus to build his church cannot imagine church life without leaders and followers. They

When a fearful people expects everything from its government, tyranny will always arise.

I'm at the mercy of Editors, who are hidden behind panels and are never seen by mortal eyes.