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Authority Quotes

"I'm not bossy I'm the boss."

"When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept."

"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have"

"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac"

"Brevity is the soul of command"

"Intellectuals may like to imagine themselves as people who speak truth to power, but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power"

"It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief"

"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking"

"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared"

"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it"

"Leadership can't be fabricated. It has to be earned"

"Leaders who do not act dialogically but insist on imposing their decisions do not organize the people they manipulate them"

"No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to manage them in such a way as to convert them into special privileges"

"The office of the sovereign, be it a monarch or an assembly, consisteth in the end for which he was entrusted with the sovereign power, namely the procuration of the safety of the people."

"Resist much, obey little"

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