Sayings On Authority

There are two kinds of people who never amount to much:
Those who cannot do what they are told, and
those who can do nothing else.
Cyrus H. Curtis

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Men in authority will always think that
criticism of their policies is dangerous.
They will always equate their policies with patriotism,
and find criticism subversive.
Henry Steele

You can have power over people as long as you
don't take everything away from them.
But when you've robbed a man of everything,
he's no longer in your power.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security,
and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
James Russell Lowell

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are
in almost every case gotten at second-hand,
and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves
examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand
from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were
not worth a brass farthing.
Mark Twain

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the
most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
Stanley Milgram