Quotes About Authority

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

reputation of power is power.

I would be bored to death if I didn't control a country--Gin

He was a rationalist, he downplayed the role of authority, and he was critical of the inequities of the caste system as it existed then. He was the only religious leader in the history of the world who asked people not to follow his teachings based on his authority. That's a quite modern, egalitarian, and refreshing point of view.

For shame, Miss Hunt. If your grandfather learned you had taken the liberty of inspecting the tools of one of his workers, he might just tan your hide.

As long as the nation permits doctors to run the show, that

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty has become the doctrine of the executive in Parliament....

No is a powerful word. To me, it's the single most powerful word in the English language. Said clearly, strongly and with enough frequency and force, it can alter the course of history.

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous.

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

A master who cannot bow to his disciple cannot bow to Buddha.

V?ve mai i le f?le, my mother said vehemently. Hurry home. She took a drag from a cigarette and walked towards the sewing machine. Her workplace and altar of worship. Before she sat down, she picked up a pair of scissors and pointed them towards me. Ma fa`ap?ku i luga l? g? ulu. K?o ia, fa`akogu so`o. And how many times do I need to tell you to wrap your hair up in a bun before you leave this house? I could just bake you in an oven!

If professionals consider one thing "unjust," it is often this: Split-second operational decisions that get evaluated, turned over, examined, picked apart, and analyzed for months—by people who were not there when the decision was taken, and whose daily work does not even involve such decisions.

Stay from underfoot and don't get into any trouble. You hear me?" "Yes, ma'am, I hear you." Due to past experience, she may not have completely believed me. When

the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Getting called into the coach's office is like getting called into the principal's office. And I never have good enough grades to hope it's because the principal has nice news.

At bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

the world is just as harsh a taskmaster as any other lord, and in the end it's a lord without mercy.

the drive for power is potentially endless and boundless. Some people in search of power cannot conceive any limitation to it. Such people as Alexander the Great and Napoleon could have had all the wealth and sex they wanted in the early period of their political life, but they continued to seek more and more power.

Not all men want to dominate a large number of other persons, but those who do affect the life of many.

The great irony of the Boudreau story is that the formal judicial system constantly scolded the accused for 'taking the law into their own hands' without ever recognizing that the accused had repeatedly and unsuccessfully tried to persuade the authorities to deal with Phillip. The root causes of the tragedy include a systemic failure of the legal system itself.