Rick Riordan Quotes

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

They must be governed by and be subordinate to you.

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

Humans want to know the hierarchy; it's important for there to be one leader.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

I like power and I like to use it.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.

Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Men love power.

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

The silence of peoples is something kings should study.

Where Macgregor sits, there is the head of the table.