Quotes about Authority

I believe orders should be obeyed, but sometimes you have to think about the orders you get.

I tend to be a bit of a proselytiser for the importance of royal courts, but all politics - in fact every form of human organisation, and this is something that's so dreadful for all those brought up in the 60s - naturally reverts to monarchy. Newspapers have editors, companies have chief executives.

Now, we can't stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time - if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

Not everything can be solved by government.

A ruler who is loved is greater than a ruler who is feared.

Leadership calls for POWER, and power calls for COOPERATION.

The efficient leader leads by encouraging, and not by trying to instil fear in the hearts of his followers. The leader who tries to impress his followers with his "authority" comes within the category of leadership through force. If a leader is a real leader, he will have no need to advertise that fact except by his conduct— his sympathy, understanding, fairness, and a demonstration that he knows his job.

Men who control themselves usually boss the job, no matter what it may be.

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.

Messi would never tell a coach who he has to play or not. I think he not only lacks the power to do that but also is not humanly capable of saying that.

Many feel that in today's climate some of those in authority are exercising, in effect, a self-serving, 'ends justify the means' mindset as well, and that, in turn, empowers them to do the same.