Quotes About Authority

People are afraid that they're going to upset somebody on top, and so there's a real sense of, I've got to be quiet, I don't want to be fired.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

MLB has become overly active, actively involved in the game, the on-the-field game. They're trying to run the game the way they want to and you just have to play along with it, deal with it.

People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state.

I have it on good authority that Victor's going to have car trouble. Also that Robert really likes Cheerios, so if you want some, you're out of luck. He doesn't seem like the sharing type.

Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.

If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.