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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.
There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that.
Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.
I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.
I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.