Quotes About Authority

el lema secreto de la familia revolucionaria: "Tener poder para poder tener".

Los tiranos creen que el poder se conserva a punta de bayoneta. En México no es así: basta con repartir a la masa un puñado de cohetes y unos barriles de pulque.

Who are you?" he asked. I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on.

Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl

We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.

Epicurus as a moral empiricist felt that our immediate feelings are far more cogent and authoritative guides to the good life than abstract maxims, verbal indoctrination, or even the voice of reason itself. Hence he based his ethics on nature, not on convention or on reason.

economic performance counts heavily in the development of a political system's legitimacy

It's a fucked-up war when you are more worried about fighting your chain of command than the actual enemy.

He who kills even one unbeliever of those who rule over us, whether he does it secretly or openly, shall be rewarded by God.

Morgenthau quotes

What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.

The war vindicated their conviction, itself a product of the slavery controversy, that freedom stood in greater danger of abridgment from local than national authority (a startling reversal of the founding fathers' belief, enshrined in the Bill of Rights, that centralized power posed the major threat to individual liberties).

You seem to fit the part all right. Your technical record is first-class. Your disciplinary record stinks to high heaven.' He eyed his listener blank faced. 'Two charges of refusing to obey a lawful order. Four for insolence and insubordination. One for parading with your cap on back to front. What on earth made you do that?' 'I had a bad attack of what-the-hell, sir,' explained Leeming.

Damn! - I'd rather walk into something of my own accord than to be frogmarched into it." "So it says here in the file. James Mowry, twenty-six, restless and pigheaded. Can be trusted to do anything at all - provided the alternative is worse." "You sound like my father. Did he tell you that?" "The Service does not reveal its sources of information.

There's a strong message of divine righteousness in dictatorships. Every megalomaniac has to believe his actions are sanctioned by God.

Leadership is much like nuclear energy. It is able to warm a whole city or bring it to waste in death and destruction; it's all in how it is used.

Hatshepsut began to wear the traditional Pharaonic false beard and other accoutrements of office, and men's clothing with body armor to conceal her breasts and other female attributes, as can be seen in statues created at Deir el-Bahari, her mortuary temple. She also changed her name, giving it a masculine rather than a feminine ending, and became "His Majesty, Hatshepsu." In other words, she ruled as a man, a male pharaoh, not simply as regent.

We need leaders, not corporate types who think managing is leading.

Either come over, or sit your fucking ass back down. To former Gen. Michael Flynn at White House meeting, December 18, 2020.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.