Quotes About Authority

The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the drums, telling them to tune their guitars, micromanaging.

At home, my children make sure that I fall in line and march to their tune.

There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.

If you're going to make as much money as you are, when you're fighting someone else, that's the one thing I always tell people is I would never turn down the truly rightful No. 1 contender in my division, because the UFC can actually strip you. They can say, 'You're not going to fight the No. 1 contender. We can strip you.'

All it takes to become president is money and a certain kind of power. Being president is the first thing I can shoot for, not the highest. It may come to a point where people take rock and roll musicians more seriously than they take politicians. It may eventually turn out that musicians have more credibility.

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

I think every manager has that, the so-called hairdryer treatment when things need a little turnaround.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

If my coach told me to go run them bleachers, you didn't ask no questions. I turned around and started running until he said stop.

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

I can not regulate Daryl Turner. He's a union official.

The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

I'm turning into a stricter dad.

There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do is stop that turning into arrogance or despotism!

You can't delegate turning a company around.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.