Authority Quotes

"I can't control you" "The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny" "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves" "The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind." "We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws" "The essence of government is power and power lodged as it must be in human hands will ever be liable to abuse " "Always do everything you ask of those you command" "Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power" "The gatekeepers must change" "Where there is power, there is resistance." "See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence." "Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him" "Do everything you ask of those you command " "Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few" "Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done, and then to get others to want to do it." "When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept." "The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best" "You don’t lead by hitting people over the head that’s assault, not leadership" "It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law" "The law always limits every power it gives."