Authority Structure Quotes

Power reveals.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

You cannot effectuate change if you do not have power.

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

The gatekeepers don't control the gates, and the powers that be aren't as powerful.

As to mere power I have been for years in the daily exercise of more personal authority than any President habitually enjoys.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

In all governments, there must of necessity be both the law and the sword; laws without arms would give us not liberty, but licentiousness; and arms without laws, would produce not subjection, but slavery. The law, therefore, should be unto the sword what the handle is to the hatchet; it should direct the stroke and temper the force.

The central factor in most human beings is power. Politics is the manifestation of the quest for power.

Leadership and power vacuums will be filled.

Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

The White House staff [under Richard Nixon] viewed Congress in much the same way that the chairman of the board of a huge corporation regards his regional sales managers.

The military power shall always be held in exact subordination to the civil authority, and be governed by it.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

The English constitution is founded on the principle of choosing a single sovereign authority and making it good.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

I believe in power.

The world consists of, and is divided by, sovereign states which recognize no superior authority.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

Whatever is the strongest power in society will obtain the governing authority; and a change in the political constitution cannot be durable unless preceded or accompanied by an altered distribution of power in society itself

In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.

Obey your bishop! "Obey those set over you [Heb 13:17]," the teachers of the Church... I remind you, my dear friends, of what I said when I was with you: do not receive any outside or unknown preacher, unless he be sent by your bishop or preaches with the permission of the pope. For "how shall they preach unless they are sent [Rom 10:15]?"

When you establish a powerful position, the first think you have to do is check that power and make it accountable.

Control is the source of strategic power.

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.