Quotes About Authority

Decisions were a delight after the curse. I loved having the power to say yes or no, and refusing anything was a special pleasure.

curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally. Mother rarely insisted I do anything. Father

Gail Carson Levine

Ann Fowler was sentenced to twenty lashes in 1637 for defaming a county justice, Adam Thorowgood, with the somewhat undeferential suggestion that Captain Thorowgood could "Kiss my arse.

Memorial activities during the first two decades after the war increased the importance of the voice of the Confederate dead—gave authority to the ghosts of the Confederacy. But the South had not yet decided who would speak for the ghosts of the Confederacy and to what larger purpose.

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.

I always say that when a country wins with such overwhelming might, it's bad news for that country.

I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.

All men are wired to be in control of what's going on in their life.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

A wise ruler, when he makes his laws, is bound to find himself in conflict with the world.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.

It neither is reason nor in any wise to be suffered that the young king, our master and kinsman, should be in the hands of custody of his mother's kindred, sequestered in great measure from our company and attendance, the which is neither honorable to his majesty nor unto us.

So benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards, right?

Those who are looking to seek power must make wise judgements.

Just because you have the numbers in Congress, doesn't mean it's wise to abuse your power.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

The drafters of the Constitution... wisely put restraints on the president.