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Quotes About Authority

Wake up and live your life on your own terms, you are a king in your own kingdom, a god in your own universe
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
A responsible woman guides, controls (albeit subtly), directs with superior knowledge that is higher than that of her contemporaries!
~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu
It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.
~ Gerry Geek
We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
Boss may be on, but leader can be anyone.
~ Ameya Agrawal
I delegate, therefore I am.
~ Michael McCafferty
One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.
~ Aristotle
The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.
~ Michel Foucault
The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.
~ George Muller
How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?
~ John Dewey
Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.
~ Pope Paul VI
Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.
~ John Taylor Gatto
I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.
~ Don Herold
The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.
~ Leopold Sedar Senghor
Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood
~ KRS-One
You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.
~ Dhani Harrison
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
~ Xunzi
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
~ Bill Gates
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
~ Mark Twain
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
~ Sophocles
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.
~ Victor Hugo
No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.
~ Max Lucado
Those who can't teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.
~ Diane Ravitch