Quotes About Authority

Society is a destructive illusion of control, nothing more. And

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

Democracy has a habit of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the powers-that-be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers-that-ought-to-be

The cyber industry is riddled with faux experts and self-proclaimed scholars, Tallinn Manual 2.0 is a perfect example of what happens when cyber-upstarts try to proclaim authority on a topic they know nothing about.

Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.

No bishop, no king"; he might have added, "No devil, no divine right.

Every degree of power involves a corresponding degree of freedo from good and evil.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

Emperor or Warmaster, he didn't give a damn whose name he had to salute. He had no respect for any of them.

When he was unexpectedly elevated to the executive director's position in 1942, Tobin quickly instilled at the Port Authority a disciplined, hierarchical, but deeply communitarian ethos designed to serve not power but a higher moral purpose.

When his parents announced the newest rules to Jamal, he defiantly announced back to them that, as a matter of principle, he would not be "manipulated or forced into complying with a Fascist parenting style.

Those who want to insist that the Bible requires women never to exercise authority publicly over men are forced into some striking exegetical gymnastics to account for this direct evidence of women in leadership in the New Testament texts.

Wedding Obergruppenführer

controlling.

No law against throwing a coat in the canal, is there?" "I would have thought so, yes." "Well—who knows. Not very widely enforced law, if you ask me

Andy's mother, with her understated jewelry and her not-quite-interested smile – the kind of woman who could get on the phone with the mayor if she needed a favor – seemed

installed herself as Wedding Obergruppenführer.

No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent.

it was not only the executive's right but his responsibility "to do whatever the needs of the people demand, unless the Constitution or the laws explicitly forbid him to do it.

The vice presidency "ought to be abolished," he told his friend Leonard Wood. "The man who occupies it may at any moment be everything; but meanwhile he is practically nothing.

Roosevelt repeatedly "brought his clenched fist down on the palm of his other hand.

No cosmic dramatist could possibly devise a better entrance for a new President—or a new Dictator, or a new Messiah—than that accorded to Franklin Roosevelt," White House aide Robert Sherwood observed, aligning himself with those who believe that a leader is summoned to the fore by the needs of the time.

Assume full responsibility for a pivotal decision.