Quotes About Authority

I have always been thankful that Mother started teaching me ahead of time, because it enabled me to skip half the grades in school and thus get out quicker. To me, attending school was a gloomy and unjust imprisonment for offenses I had not yet committed. I still think it is unfair for the authorities to assume that children are going to be so wicked that they are prepared arbitrarily for institutional life instead of activities in the open.

screw the rules i have money

Only concentrated action quells tyranny.

They are equal in nature (that is, they are both boys). Yet they are separate persons. In most cases one will submit to the other's expertise, insight or perceived authority in the relationship. In this sense one might be described as subservient in duty to the other, at least in certain areas.

the most high God [El Elyon], the possessor of heaven and earth" (14:22), he is telling this Gentile leader that God is the king's leader and that the king is God's servant.

He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many doorways, he would have pointed out that this was a reasonable assumption.

Depend upon it, her mother's voice said sternly in her memory, no prudent man will ever accept a wife who knows more than himself.

We yield our wills and our imaginations to "experts," both visible and invisible, and pretend that only the experts have god-given powers of perception. We forget the legitimacy of our own knowing.

If we allow ourselves to become authorities, we tend to lock ourselves into the corner we label "right," and forget that every corner has its own share of rightness.

WOMEN, SEXUAL ROLES AND CHILDREN There is much evidence that women held their own in Viking society, even though men had the upper hand. Many exercised independent authority and were respected as members of their own social class, and their status may have improved during the Viking Age, since men were often away on long military expeditions or trading voyages, leaving the women in charge of everything at home.

The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.

back then, even talking about rock and roll at the Royal Academy would have been sacrilege, like turning up to church and telling the vicar that you're really interested in worshipping Satan.

Aún conservaba algo de aquella antigua lealtad hacia la autoridad que suele convertir a los hermanos pequeños en traidores y en chivatos

were charged with getting the computer to obey their commands, as if it were a wild, untamable beast. They were the princes of

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

A true leader ought to be taking his/her followers to where they need to be. Rather than to where they want to be.

Every true leader is expected to be commanding respect/dignity from his/her followers/subjects and not at all to be demanding for it.

Self control is all about having a firm hand i.e. self control is strict discipline/control of one's emotions and actions. Are you self controlled or not? If NO then, you've got to strictly discipline/control your emotions/actions. For, you ought to do just that.

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

No autocrat wields a power comparable to that enjoyed by a poor devil planning to kill himself.

Enlightened despotism: the only regime that can attract a disabused mind, one incapable of being the accomplice of revolutions since it is not even the accomplice of history.

The Captain was a peasant established in the Absolute.