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Authority Quotes

"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled"

"The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics"

"Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done, and then to get others to want to do it."

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant"

"One who has power chooses who and what is right."

"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn"

"The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long and no longer than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them."

"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."

"When there is no common power, there is no law."

"There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over."

"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak"

"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"

"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."

"Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself"

"Everything rises and falls on leadership "

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