Quotes About Authority

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

Never trust a woman whose father calls her 'Princess'. Chances are she believes it.

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.

A king who trusts no man is weak.

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.

I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don't trust any organization that has a handbook.

Don't forget: when you start a website, it's not yet a trusted site. So you have to bring people from a trusted site to your site to build up the trust in your site.

Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It's like building trust. You don't instantly have trust, it has to be earned.

The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?

In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!

That level of trust was what being in command was truly about--being able to lead someone not only down an unknown path, but also a seemingly wrong path, if the need called for doing so.

We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.

Readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of minutes in my day, and I need to look to sources that I trust.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us thru fear.

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.

Trust the expert. -Experto credite

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.