Quotes About Authority

la auténtica autoridad constriñe el ejercicio arbitrario del poder.

He had already concluded that adults were contemptible, and that he could safely defy them. (Too bad, then, that he was destined to become one.)

To adopt authority is to learn that power requires concern and competence—and that it comes at a genuine cost.

I convince the prospect that I am a highly competent, ultraknowledgeable professional by coming off as a world-class expert in my field, right out of the gate.

and stressing your consonants so that your words have intensity to them. It's like you're talking with your fists clenched, and there's an active volcano inside you ready to erupt at any second—but of course it doesn't, because you're an expert who's in total control.

Doctor, as in "an apple a day"? Or one of those guys who's got an honorary title for staying in college too long?

I'd always thought that rules were just for people who tended to get caught.

He said he "admired our courage" but didn't want to see us do anything to "damage our promising futures." He felt "proud as an American" that we had "exercised our right to peaceful free expression." But if we did it again, he didn't "know what action the state board of education might take against individual students." Translation: You've had your fun. Now sit down, shut up, and take the freakin' test. Or else.

Break their hearts and take their money , they have no power.

Não decretou dr. Teodoro lei e controle de imediato e com severidade; nem sequer falou em tal. Sendo homem tranqüilo e suspicaz, de educação cutuba, nada sabia impor e não impunha; no entanto tudo obtinha sem estardalhaço, sem que os demais se sentissem violentados; um fode-mansinho o nosso caro farmacêutico.

No opina usted que el uso de guardaespaldas es indicio de que hay algo podrido en el gobierno?

Quienes tienen un modo autoritario de entender la dirección de un grupo de trabajo piensan que el respeto, la libertad y un trato amable encierran el peligro de ablandar a la tropa. Pero los buenos líderes y los buenos profesionales deben saber que la confianza no elude el control.

El liderazgo tiene dos maneras extremas de ejercer su poder: inspirando miedo o inspirando afecto.

impuesta la razón de Estado, a un montaje se le suma otro y, para satisfacer al presidente, el gobierno mexicano utiliza todo su poder contra una sola familia.

Qué distancia separaba a los gobernantes de los gobernados! Algunos de ellos habían sembrado vientos y allí teníamos una muestra de la tempestad

Prefiero una pequeña asamblea donde poder gritar a un vasto imperio donde tuviera que callarme

las viejas tienen poderes y prerrogativas que las jóvenes no conocen, una anarquía que todo lo permite, una falta de obligaciones que cumplir porque si las cumplen o no las cumplen no le importa nada a nadie.

Herkes avluya giriyor ve öÄŸretmenin bulunduÄŸu yeri ar?yor. ÖÄŸretmen bizi dörder dörder s?raya diziyor, koyunlar gibi s?n?fa giriyoruz.

En general, el político es político precisamente porque es torpe.

En medio de mi inorancia conozco que nada valgo: soy la liebre o soy el galgo asigún los tiempos andan; pero también los que mandan debieran cuidarnos algo.

La ley es tela de araña, en mi inorancia lo esplico: No la tema el hombre rico; nunca la tema el que mande; pues la ruempe el bicho grande y sólo enrieda a los chicos.

164 En medio de mi inorancia conozco que nada valgo: soy la liebre o soy el galgo asigún los tiempos andan; pero también los que mandan debieran cuidarnos algo. 165

Quem não pode esperar para ser proclamado não é capaz de governar condignamente!

So much power places in human hands, the hands of ignorant and willful men, withoutm oral training, without proven honesty, is a weapon placed in the hands of a madman let loose in an unarmed crowd. I admit, and I want to believe like you, that the Government needs this strong right arm, but it should choose it well, from among the most worthy, and since it prefers to confer authority on itself rather than receive it from the people, let it at least show that it knows how to do so.