Quotes About Authority

leadership can eventually become a choice not a position

Management is essentially moving the fulcrum over, and the key to effective management is delegation.

Manage from the left; lead from the right.

what is the truth about the inner motivations, character, and ambition of those who hold power?

They want other people to be the way they want them to be. They often want to clone them, and they surround themselves with "yes" people—people who won't challenge them, people who are weaker than they.

Y qué ocurre cuando cambia o desaparece la fuente de la fuerza, ya consista en el mayor tamaño o la mayor fuerza física, en la posición superior, en la autoridad, en credenciales, en símbolos de estatus, en el aspecto personal o en logros pasados?

I was unable or unwilling to give patience or understanding, so I expected her to give things. In an attempt to compensate for my deficiency, I borrowed strength from my position and authority and forced her to do what I wanted her to do.

in an artificial social system such as school, you may be able to get by if you learn how to manipulate the man-made rules, to "play the game.

Either way—authoritarian or permissive—you have the golden egg mentality. You want to have your way or you want to

power is a dreadful thing, and that the knowledge of power dims the seeing of the wise.

If you do not capitulate to me here, I will exterminate you and all you have ever loved as easily as I exterminate rats!" At that, King Joyse looked over at Prince Kragen. Mock-seriously, he said, "Come, my lord Prince. This discussion is pointless. The High King insists on jesting with us. In all the world, no one has ever succeeded at exterminating rats.

Unearned knowledge rules its wielder, to the cost of both.

All power is an articulation of its wielder. There is no other source than life—and the desire of that life to express itself.

Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God.

Now no one can be the slave of two masters

In a world of locked rooms, the man with the key is king. And honey, you should see me in a crown.

More access to information meant more dissent, more informed discussion, more widespread criticism of authority. Information changed the world.

Politics is a powerful drug.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary - James Madison

Knowledge is the first thing eradicated once power is attained. History has proven that over and over.

Aren't you the president? Don't they all work for you?" "I'm a president with not much more than a year left in office. They don't really care what I think or do anymore. They're more interested in the next person who'll be sitting in this chair.

Communism's entire existence depended on coercion.

The Koran likewise. The Magna Carta. The American Constitution. Billions of people govern their lives by those words. Society has been altered by them.

What was the maxim? If you try to kill the king, make sure you do.