Authority Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

  James Madison

  Powerful, Government, People

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• The Magna Carta is an early reminder of the crucial difference between freedom and liberty. Liberty is freedom that is unique to humans, it is guaranteed by law. All animals are free, but in a system of humans total freedom is anarchy. Humans have thrived by letting a dominant authority regulate freedom. Liberty is a freedom that the authority has granted or has been persuaded to grant. For centuries, the state and the people have negotiated, peacefully and violently.

  Manu Joseph

  Animal, Unique, Law

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• There is a great difference, then, between "power" and "authority." Power refers to one's ability to coerce others (through physical, economic, or other means) to do one's bidding. One can possess the means of power: physical strength, armaments, and money. But authority must be performed. Authority refers to one's ability to gain the trust and willing obedience of others. While power rests on intimidation, authority survives through inspiration.

  Joshua Meyrowitz

  Inspiration, Mean, Power

  Joshua Meyrowitz (1986). “No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior”, p.75, Oxford University Press

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• There are reasons to have rules and regulations. That I understand. Authority is a different thing. Authority is to maintain its own position by increasing its power and domination over those people it is supposedly protecting.

  James Cromwell

  People, Regulation, Different

  "James Cromwell Talks STILL MINE, Playing a Lead Role, Questioning Authority, AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 16, 2013.

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• It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  People, Comfortable

  Live Chat with Ellsberg and Filmmakers, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2010.

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• If you delegate authority, you will build leaders.

  Craig Groeschel

  Leader, Ifs, Delegates

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• Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Speak, Ifs

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• The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

  Seneca the Younger

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• A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

  Gary Hamel

  Leader, Done, Able

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• Authority does not equal competency.

  Andy Stanley

  Doe, Equal, Competencies

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• Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.

  Noel Tichy

  Self, Leader, Use

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

  Francis Bacon

  Power, Too Much, Interchange

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• Anyone who takes responsibility for getting something done is welcome to ask for the authority to do it.

  Seth

  Responsibility, Done, Welcome

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• Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Leader, Honest, Dialogue

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• God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice, to restrain evil by punishing the wrongdoer, and to protect the good in society. When it does the reverse, it has no proper authority. It is then a usurped authority and as such it becomes lawless and is tyranny.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Evil, Justice, Doe

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• Many people confuse authority and the power of efficiency, as if the first role of people with responsibility is to take decisions, command effectively and so exercise power. But their role first of all is to be a person to whom others can turn for help and advice, to provide security, to affirm, to support, to encourage and to guide.

  Jean Vanier

  Responsibility, Exercise, People

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• The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

  Roger Williams

  People, Sovereign, Consent

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Moral Growth, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in his group. The mutual support provided by men for each other is the strongest bulwark we have against the excesses of authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Men, Mutual Support, Wish

  "Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View". Book by Stanley Milgram, p. 121, 1974.

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• The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

  Robert Hugh Benson

  Love, Lying, Liberty

  Robert Hugh Benson (2015). “Dawn of All”, p.31, Booklassic

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• Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.

  Rick Warren

  People, Accountability, Advice

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 14, 2013

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• We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

  James Hillman

  Giving, Office, Holding On

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• There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion as much as possible. To control everything, to leave no room for anything to happen of its own accord without the interference of the authorities--th is is the goal for which every ruler secretly strives.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Goal, Dominion, Rooms

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.53, VM eBooks

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• A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Law, Prison

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.202

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