Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

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.

Those who can, must obey.

I never liked being ordered around - which, of course, was an overreaction. I eventually found out that I didn't mind being ordered around at all when it was by someone who knew what he was doing.

Learn to obey before you command.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming blanket acquiescence, approval, and support.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

The time will come, without my seeking it, that my words will almost serve as law. If I ask a certain thing, it will be done. If I don't want something, it will not be done.

Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.

They go where I tell them and do what I tell them.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …

Tell them to fly.

He no play-a da game. He no make-a da rules.

I've never been able to accept any kind of discipline.

Some people like telling people what to do. I don't like telling people what to do.

I will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

I just don't like authority. I do like authority when I respect it.

Everywhere in life people are in authority to make decisions and you have to abide by them, whether right or wrong.