Authority Complex Quotes

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

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.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

You want power because it's an opportunity.

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.

Power is seductive.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

I like power and I like to use it.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Men love power.

Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. Highly similar delusions, if expressed by educated men in obscure language, lead to professorships of philosophy; and if expressed by emotional men in eloquent language, lead to dictatorships.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren't many people who can be put in high positions who won't start thinking highly of themselves.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

When human beings say they have power, it always makes me laugh a little bit.

Exercising power can do strange things to people. You can become convinced that you're irreplaceable. You can become convinced that you're always right. And I think the danger is the longer you stay in power, the more likely that is to happen.

The only advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.

Anyone can be seduced by the possession of power and influence.

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

When I'm around authority, I still feel like I'm 14 or 15 years old.