Quotes About Authority

Trust is good, but control is better.

There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.

It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.

Love your country, but never trust its government.

Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage.

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

It always matters, whether or not you can trust your government.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.

You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Don't trust anyone over thirty

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

I don't trust the church or the government, and anything the church or the government tells me I assume to be a lie or a conspiracy, until proven true.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Trust is fine, but control is better.

I don't trust a government I can't shoot back at

Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.