1,121 Quotes About Authority

Be more receptive of your responsibility than you are of your rights.

It has always been time and it is always never too late to acknowledge and understand that We are more powerful than we have been lead to believe. Walk tall in your power and never give it to an outside source. True authority comes from within.

This gossip did not mean that her servants were disloyal, but rather that they were proud of their mistress.

Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.

You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.

Since the dawn of time people have had to humiliate themselves before the Caesars.

Maybe that’s what we imagine it would be like to have a woman lead us. When women got into positions of power, they calibrated and recalibrated tenderness and strength, modulating and correcting. Power and love didn’t often live side by side. If one came in, the other might go.

Language, George Orwell reminds us, is always political. It can be used to “make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.” The euphemism, he wrote, is the weapon of choice: "Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification.

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