Quotes About Authority

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.

Humans want to know the hierarchy; it's important for there to be one leader.

When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low.

In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.

So many limits in Catholic high school! I'm not a bad Catholic, but everything was off-limits.

Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions.

I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.

No authority is higher than reality.

Police have two rights that even the president does not have, the right to take liberty and to take life. Those are dear to America. And we must ensure that the highest level of scrutiny and standard goes to anyone who is given that right.

The entire Strict Father model is based on the further assumption that the exercise of authority is itself moral; that is, it is moral to reward obedience and punish disobedience. I will refer to this most basic assumption as the Morality of Reward and Punishment. Reward

Rewards given to those who have not earned them through competition are thus immoral. They violate the entire system. They remove the incentive to become self-disciplined and they remove the need for obedience to authority. But

TK-421, why aren't you at your post?

You don't know how hard I found it, signing the order to terminate your life

Force has never kept anything together for very long. The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers.

There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.

When God can do what He will with a man, the man may do what he will with the world; he may walk on the sea like his Lord; the deadliest thing will not be able to hurt him.

This is in the very nature of things: obedience alone places a man in the position in which he can see so as to judge that which is above him.

By obeying one learns how to obey.

It is the one terrible heresy of the church, that it has always been presenting something else than obedience as faith in Christ.

By obedience, I intend no kind of obedience to man, or submission to authority claimed by man or community of men. I mean obedience to the will of the Father, however revealed in our conscience.

She was too much occupied with obedience to trouble her head about opinion, either her own or other people's.