Authority Quote by Vladimir Lenin

“We have a new type of rule now. Not one man rule, or rule of aristocracy, or plutocracy, but of small groups elevated to…

— William S. Burroughs

Every Russian emperor from Peter the Great to Stalin and Putin knows a leader and his security agencies must never be parted. His safety…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation…

— Richard M. Nixon

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never…

— W. Averell Harriman

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from…

— Thomas Jefferson

“A leader doesn’t need imposed or structural authority. In fact, it may get in the way, if you’re not careful.”

— Alex Harms

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

— Harry S. Truman

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

— Arleigh Burke

“If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.”

— Slavoj Žižek

Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.

— John Lewis Gaddis

Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government…

— Ferdinand Marcos

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of…

— Ludwig von Mises