Authority is never without hate.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

It has become so obvious that if you can insult people very well, you are awarded a position when your government comes to power, and that is bad.

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Sir, you are continually insulting. Is that because you are afraid of losing your authority? Is that why you give free rein to your vexatious personality, constantly assuming the shrill posture of a dictator?

The assistant commander at any post is supposed to be a ruthless son of a bitch.

Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician.

Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.

No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled.

Politicians only get to the top because they have no qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.