Judge Mills Lane Quotes

We are not final because we are infallible; we are infallible because we are final.

I'm the person with the final say on everything. I really love being in that position.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Power has no limits.

In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.

I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.

The power cannot be delegated.

An expert is someone who is capable of articulating the interests of people with power.

All leaders must have some power. Without power, you can't be a leader.

When you have the ball in your hand, you're the most important guy in the whole organization.

Everywhere in life people are in authority to make decisions and you have to abide by them, whether right or wrong.

That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.

When uncertainty collides with urgency, authorities enter the fray and issue judgment. But tentative conclusions proclaimed by the powerful can harden into orthodoxies.

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.

If he's alive, everything is in his power! Whose fault is it that he doesn't understand that?

When one is on horsebacke hee knowes all things.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

As they spread out their blankets, Saphira commented with satisfaction, We are becoming more powerful, Eragon, both of us. Soon no one will be able to stand in our way. Yes, but which way shall we choose? Whichever one we want, she said smugly, settling down for the night.

If Stalin ever told me to urinate, I'm not sure I'd be able to.

We can't do both. If you want us to lead, don't criticize us. And if you want us to play a supporting role, then tell us who is going to lead.