Quotes about Authority
Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.
— Margaret Atwood
The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states.
— Mike Huckabee
We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.
— Muhammad Ali
True Leadership is the authority given by the trust of the followers to use power for the benefit of all.
— Myles Munroe
No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.
— Peter Drucker
Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
— Philip Yancey
Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.
— Pierre Corneille
He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
— William Hazlitt
Deceit is a tool of statecraft, " Irulan agreed."There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover, " Paul said.
— Frank Herbert
And what does it mean to take care of power? Do you use it? Conserve it? Keep it out of the wrong hands?
— Rainbow Rowell
If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
— Billy Sunday