Quotes About Authority

He only who gave life has a power over it.

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

My family comes first, and you have to be in charge to be able to protect that. You have to be the one who says no or you don't have a life, which is what I found out the first time.

I don't like local, state or federal level of got mandating anything in our lives , in our families, and in our businesses, unless it comes to saving lives.

Hey, boss? (Vik) Not now, Vik. (Syn) Dude, listen to the metallic life form. (Vik)

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

Someone's running your life. Most of us are on the throne of our own lives. Jesus wants to sit on the throne of your life.

The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law.

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.

I hear you're supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I'm the queen. Your life will be nicer if I like you.

The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

There's no one else who can make the daily decisions—eating well, exercising regularly—that deliver lifelong health. In other words, being healthy is a "do-it-yourself" project. Seen in that light, we are all biohackers. Yet too many people entrust their day-to-day decisions to authority figures—the tools, as it were—on the assumption that the experts actually know what they're talking about.

Without realizing it, they're like clay telling the potter that they know more about pottery than he does and that they can form themselves into pots on their own (Is 29:16).

Law-abiding citizens and people with good political connections stand their ground.

That was the definition of management—getting others to do your work for you. And we were the others.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

Webster wrote, that "an individual forming part of a public force, and acting under the authority of his Government, is not to be held answerable" for acts authorized by his sovereign.