Authority And Power Quotes

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  Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.

  Jacques Maritain

  Mean, Power, Government

  Jacques Maritain (1951). “Man and the State”, p.126, CUA Press

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  Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life Changing, Epic, Power

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• You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Relationship, Leadership

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• Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Leadership, Business, Bruises

  Anne Bradstreet, Adrienne Rich, Jeannine Hensley (2010). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Pr

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• Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

  Malcolm X

  Power, Faces, Steps

  "Malcolm X Speaks". Book by George Breitman, 1965.

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  Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  Lord Acton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Work

  Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.

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• The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

  James Madison

  Power, Hands, Essence

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Knowledge, Government

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• Christ is the source of all true priesthood authority and power on earth. It is His work, in which we are privileged to assist.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Earth, Christ, Source

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• Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Power, Tyrants

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• 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.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Power, People, Watches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Real, Power

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.187

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• Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

  Lord Acton

  Exercise, Men, Influence And Power

  "Historical Essays and Studies". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, oll.libertyfund.org. 1907.

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• I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Desire, Leviathan, Restless

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 11 (1651)

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• To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you are saying, in effect, 'I have a voice. I have a story. This is what I have to say.'

  Rebecca McClanahan

  Writing, Voice, Names

  Rebecca McClanahan (2001). “Write Your Heart Out”, Writer's Digest Books

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• Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

  Lord Acton

  Exercise, Men, Influence And Power

  "Historical Essays and Studies". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, oll.libertyfund.org. 1907.

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• Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.

  Peter Marshall

  Philosophy, Political, Wish

  "Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism". Book by Peter Marshall (p. 47), 1992.

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• During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Fear, War, Men

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 13 (1651)

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• [Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power.

  Chuck Smith

  People, Satan, Defeated

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• My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Authority

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do not like to be called a samurai, but I admit that I have an image of myself as a fighter. I would like to fight against all authorities and powers.

  Nagisa Oshima

  Fighting, Samurai, Fighter

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• Donald Trump is writing a different theme, which is it's midnight in America and that things are bad, and they're bleak, and they're gloomy and they're doomy, and the only thing that is going to save you is someone with the authority and power of somebody like me.

  Mark Shields

  Writing, America, Midnight

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Donald Trump has a grand direction. He doesn't have a grand strategy. He wants to re-establish American authority and power and to relaunch the American economy.

  Newt Gingrich

  Want, Strategy, Economy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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