Society...Institutions...AUTHORITY
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1108
“We don’t manage people here. People manage themselves. Commitment, not authority, produces results.”
— W. L. Gore & Associates
AUTHORITY, Motivation, Personal Management, Leadership
1109
“Defeat ensues when others interfere with the authority of the chosen leader. Divided command is often fatal.” — I Ching
AUTHORITY, Leadership, War & Peace
1110
“If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.” — Thomas Fuller, M.D.
AUTHORITY, Leadership, Wisdom
1111 C
“Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.” — Alfred Lloyd Tennyson
AUTHORITY, War & Peace, Death, Leadership
1112
“They who are in highest places and have the most power have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.” — John Tillotson
AUTHORITY, Fame, Government
1113
“To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it; the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.” — Charles Caleb Colton
AUTHORITY, Happiness, Fame
1114
“Lust of power is the most flagrant of all passions.” — (Cornelius) Tacitus
AUTHORITY, Ego, War & Peace
1115 A
“Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful
and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes.” — Andrew Hamilton
AUTHORITY, Leadership, War & Peace
1116
“I have never been able to conceive how an rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.”
— Thomas Jefferson
AUTHORITY, Happiness, Judgment
1117 A
“Power, like lightning, injures before its warning.” — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
AUTHORITY, Vision
1118
“You only have power over people so 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 - he’s free again.” — Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn
AUTHORITY, Government
1119 P
“He that fears you present, will hate you absent.” — Thomas Fuller, D.D.
AUTHORITY, Fear, Hate
1120
“Even weak men when united are powerful.” — J.C.F. Schiller
AUTHORITY, Doubt
1121
“The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it is worth.”
— Thomas B. Macaulay
AUTHORITY, Government, Leadership, War & Peace
1122
“Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.” — Abraham Lincoln
AUTHORITY, Winning, War & Peace
1123
“Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.”
— Alfred Thayer Mahan
AUTHORITY, War & Peace, Self-Confidence
1124 H
“Possibly: No, in three syllables.” — Unknown
AUTHORITY, Communication
1125 A
“Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping
golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed to have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.” — Nagarjuna
AUTHORITY, Originality, Dishonesty
1126 H
“If people don’t want to come out, you can’t stop them.” — Yogi Berra
AUTHORITY, Competition, Health & Fitness
1127 CA
“It is the bridle and the spur that make a good horse.” — Thomas Fuller, D.D.
AUTHORITY, Law
AUTHORITY Cross-References
Motivation—86, 99 • Pessimism—282-283 •
Fear—335 • Personal Management—435-436 • Knowledge—518, 553 •
Humility—825 • Faith—1007 • Business—1052 •
Sciences—1103 • Leadership—1135-1137, 1141, 1144 •
Reward—1215 • Government—1255, 1272 • Law—1285, 1289, 1310
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