Quotes About Authority

In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.

The word must is not to be used to princes.

I'm the type of manager who doesn't really like the word 'manage.' Nor do I really like the word 'boss.' I like to look at myself as more as a leader.

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

Too often, people equate discipline with cursing. When you go to Catholic school, the nuns don't curse a word, but you get discipline.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

For me, it's enough that I have the first and last word.

Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and whatever is therein revealed, faith accepts as true.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

Words have a lot of power.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

At my house, it's an, 'If dad says it, you can say it' kind of deal, so a lot of my slang words come off very childish at this point in my career.

Management must manage!

I don't know what other people think about me being the boss, but I really like a collaborative work environment, and I don't have a problem being at the head of that.

In 'The Force Awakens,' women as well as men are in positions of authority. And you don't have to work hard to do that - it's not a statement, it's the world.

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor.

The NSA has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times a year since Congress gave it broad new powers in 2008.