Barbara Tuchman Quotes

People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.

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

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

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

After a world title run, you can't really call someone else your leader.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

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

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

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.

I like being in charge of the remote control.

Learn to obey before you command.

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

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

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

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.

I like control.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

Power is the ability to get things done.

I like to be in control of things.

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