Quotes About Authority

What difference does it make whether the women rule or the rulers are ruled by the women?

Pero si estos funcionarios son pocos, la institución es oligárquica; y como los comisarios no pueden ser nunca muchos, la institución pertenece esencialmente a la oligarquía.

Há, enfim, pura oligarquia se o Senado ou alguma outra Assembleia elege seus membros, se o filho sucede ao pai e se esta associação é senhora das leis.

For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary but also expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule.

This, by the way, is the reason why we do not allow a man to govern, but Principle, because a man governs for himself and comes to be a despot: but the office of a ruler is to be guardian of the Just and therefore of the Equal.

You have to respect yourself before you can command a guy's respect.

Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.

Myron, like countless NCO's before him, had discovered the ideal compromise between power and responsibility.

Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee—at least not all the time.

In a rare flash of humor, she had replied: "Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.

Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.

The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its time.

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He was now probably the world's leading authority on the greatest explorer of all time

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All political problems can be solved by the correct application of power.

All right," Otto Heilmann said a few minutes later, "we must now choose our leaders.

I wanted to end the world, but I'll settle for ending yours.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.

what I know is unofficial, what [the inspector] knows is official. I have the right to private judgment, but he has none.

The authorities are excellent at amassing facts, though they do not always use them to advantage.

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

When once the law is evoked it cannot be stayed again, and