Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Authority Quotes
AuthorityGovernmentProposingResponsibility It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
AuthorityContemptLawLegislationObedience To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
AuthorityIronySex Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
AuthorityJudgmentObscenitySubjectivity Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
AuthorityCertaintyComfortFaithSecurity We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
AuthorityConscienceMoralityObedience If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
AuthorityGovernmentPreservationPropertySociety Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
AccountabilityAuthorityGovernanceLeadership No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
AuthorityCivic ResponsibilityDemocracyDictatorshipPower Dynamics The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
AuthorityEthics And IntegrityLeadershipResponsibility My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
AuthorityBalanceFairnessHarmonyTyranny Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
AuthorityFreedomLawRegulationsRespect If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.
AuthorityBehaviorControlPower My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
AuthorityConsequenceJudgmentResponsibility One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
AuthorityDestinyFamily DynamicsIdentityTradition The name Zahra was to have been lman's own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.
AuthorityDeathImmortalityLifeResurrection I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
AuthorityEthicsHumanityImmortality I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
AuthorityJusticeLaw EnforcementLegal SystemSuccess A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
AuthorityCreationIllusionInfluencePower Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
AuthorityGovernanceLeadershipPoliticsUnity The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
AuthorityHumiliationIdentityMistakeRedemption Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.
AuthorityDesireFulfillmentInner StrengthIntention Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
