Quotes About Authority

Grammar is like the air: someone higher up might try to set rules for its use, but people won't necessarily follow them.

The leaders use their power to crush people's natural desire to think for themselves. It's foot binding for the brain.

There are five degrees of initiative that the manager can exercise in relation to the boss and to the system: wait until told (lowest initiative); ask what to do; recommend, then take resulting action; act, but advise at once; and act on own, then routinely report (highest initiative).

Our research indicates that of the six leadership styles, the authoritative one is most effective, driving up every aspect of climate. Take clarity. The authoritative leader is a visionary; he motivates people by making clear to them how their work fits into a larger vision for the organization. People who work for such leaders understand that what they do matters and why. Authoritative leadership also maximizes commitment to the organization's goals and strategy.

And then there were men who were violently afraid of losing to a woman, the scariest men in the world. They become dictators, heads of state, bureaucrats, men with deadly weapons, they were everywhere. Sometimes she could pick one out with a look, but they were often charming, they had to have the power to attract in order to dominate.

Mr. M. was in all ways the model of a band director, and by that I mean he could have led an assault on an innocent nation, enslaved its peoples, and had them marching in pinwheels, all in the course of one profoundly hot afternoon.

never would. In short, he was what it meant to be a father and a man in 1971. Up against his power I could see none of his failings.

Las historias, llevadas a término, son exploraciones de los límites de la legitimidad.

las historias, llevadas a término, son exploraciones de los limites de la legitimidad.

As Menstruation and Menopause author Paula Weideger said in the 1970s, "The majority of doctors have an elevated opinion of their worth and an underdeveloped ability to respect their patients.

Seek authorities who are willing to both show you how they arrived at their conclusions and admit when they have made mistakes.

Every family is a cruel, intransigent monarchy.

Board games were invented to keep people from thinking so they won't plan a revolution.

In my name they will drive out demons… they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.

majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows.

Torheit, du regierst die Welt, und dein Sitz ist ein schöner weiblicher Mund!

Yasan?n korumad??? kimseyi ben, devlet toplulu?unun d???na at?lm?? sayar?m.

Wenn Euer Landesherr käme, und spräche, ich will mich, mit dem ganzen Troß derer, die mir das Szepter führen helfen, vernichten – vernichten, versteht ihr, welches allerdings der größteste Wunsch ist, den meine Seele hegt: so würde ihm doch den Zettel noch, der ihm mehr wert ist, als das Dasein, verweigen und sprechen: du kannst mich auf das Schafott bringen, ich aber kann dir weh tun und ich wills!

One has to be in control, otherwise the whole dynamic becomes a total disaster.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.

'The Prince' was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for Radicals' is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.