Quotes About Authority

To keep under, that is to submit. The Soul can submit to God at the time when it can send itself under the power and authority and dominion that God has over it.

Legalism is man-centered; discipline is God-centered.

Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten.

Most characteristics associated with leaders are masculine: dominance, authority, assertiveness, and so forth.

Going outside the system seems sometimes the only way to get anything done—even by those within the system.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

New laws, new restrictions, new regulations, were put in place regularly. The purpose was always to crush, to destroy, not to aid. They were being bled white all in the guise of the greater good.

It's not being a woman I mind so much," she said slowly. "'Tis the way men seem to always order my life." She leaned earnestly toward him. "Your hand, Papa, has wielded a sword and cradled a child and held power over hundreds of men." She held up her own hand. "This one has far fewer adventures before it.

Although it may not seem finished to anyone else, it's finished to you. It's your project. You did it by choice. You have the right to decide when you're done.

Yes, damn it, I love you! But the bedroom is not the boardroom, Robert. In the boardroom only one person can be in charge.

Insensitive people are powerful and the thoroughly thick-skinned are the most powerful. They make the best tyrants.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Little attention was paid, because the German people, no matter how hungry, remained obedient.

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.

Political balance among the competing groups was unstable because the king had no permanent armed force at his command.

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions, and Michel duly paid for his clairvoyance.

To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.

Know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed.

The feelings of the men who had raised Urban over their own heads probably cannot be adequately described. Some thought that the delirium of power had made the Pope furiosus et melaneholicus—in short, mad.

I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon

Command, deprived of personal judgment, can win no battles.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

When Latimer demanded to know by whom and by what authority he was being indicted, Sir Peter de la Mare supplied the historic answer that the Commons as a body would maintain all their charges in common. At one stroke he created the constitutional means for impeachment and removal of ministers.

Folly is a child of power.