Quotes About Authority

The more time you spend with the Lord, the stronger your spirit becomes. This way you get authority not just on earth but also before the Heavens

My word is iron, " Kublai said to the guards, as Meng Guang was led away. "Your people will come to know this, in time.

In time of war the laws are silent.

It's key to become 'famous' for one thing first, and that will give you the credibility to go into other areas once your ready... which generally means a long time and a lot of perfecting!

Judges don't age time decorates them.

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

Real men don't use instructions, son. Besides, this is just the manufacturer's opinion on how to put this together.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders.

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

This is your home,' he said. 'You are mistress of Finchley Park, Vanessa. You may do whatever you wish.' Her smile broadened. 'Within reason,' he added hastily.

She did not move, and now she was the Amazon as well as the schoolmistress. She really was a disconcerting female.

As I see it, there is room for only one master in my home. It may be unreasonable of me, my dear fellow, but I have always insisted that that master be me.

But in every way, the shared metaphors we use of female access to power - 'knocking on the door', 'storming the citadel', 'smashing the glass ceiling', or just giving them a 'leg up' - underline female exteriority. Women in power are seen as breaking down barriers, or alternatively as taking something to which they are not quite entitled.

if women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?

These attitudes, assumptions and prejudices are hard-wired into us: not into our brains (there is no neurological reason for us to hear low-pitched voices as more authoritative than high-pitched ones), but into our culture, our language and millennia of our history.

Other classical writers insisted that the tone and timbre of women's speech always threatened to subvert not just the voice of the male orator but also the social and political stability, the health, of the whole state.