Quotes About Authority

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Alan Whitcomb

My point is that bureaucrats—like everyone else—have a mind-set. The longer they work for government, the more they believe government is the answer, and the less they trust the everyday citizen. In fact, they begin to believe that certain groups of citizens are the root of the nation's problems. They see them as a threat. If those citizens can be brought to heel, the bureaucracy sees itself as doing the citizenry at large a greater good, actually making their lives better.

we still live in a world where might makes right. The moment we lose sight of that rule and start shrinking from our duties as a nation, is when we'll all need to begin trading in our minivans and baseball mitts for prayer rugs and Arabic lessons.

The best kind of nation was one where the government feared the people. When the government feared the people there was liberty. When the people feared the government, there was tyranny.

The base makes the case. What they want goes. As French politician Ledru-Rollin once said, "There go the people.

I believe power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power." —JULIUS CAESAR

Move or make a sound and you're going to the bottom of Dubai Creek. Understand me?

Insecure men with a patina of authority could be annoying. Give those same men actual authority and they could be deadly.

Department of Homeland Security. "Each one of them is mid- to upper-level management in their agencies.

dictate the terms of the relationship," Carl had instructed her, "or they do. You never want it to be them. Always make sure it's you.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

The Duke of York remarked that King Ferdinand of Spain had sent a letter to the Prince Regent complaining that many parts of his kingdom had been rendered entirely unrecognizable by the English magician and demanding that Mr Strange return and restore the country to its original form.

La magia no es respetable, caballero. No es... —buscó la palabra— seria. El gobierno no puede involucrarse en esas cosas.

is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.

Now came Dr Foxcastle, sailing magisterially around the corner like a fat, black ship.

Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.

She would just tell us what she wanted," recalled Elvis's cook, Mary Jenkins. "One time she said, 'I want a different cake every day of the week, but don't tell Mama—she'll put me on a diet.

Mrs. Reed grabbed Kayla's wrist. Good. You haven't gotten that damned tattoo. Whatever you do, don't let them make you get it.

Think of a word you associate with power. /Your/ safeword, angel. Choose it

Yes, money talked—loudly—and Gideon had tons of it. But he conveyed command and control with subtle actions. I recognized that after living with Nathan's father, my mom's first husband, who'd wielded power like a blunt instrument.

What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb, I had told Doctor Nolan. A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line.

Water will run by rule; the actual sun / Will scrupulously rise and set; / No little man lives in the exacting moon / And that is that, is that, is that.

I will be a little god in my small way.