Quotes About Authority

I was always seen as defiant. And I did know that as a kid. It just wasn't something that was stamped out of me. I often had problems in school where I would stand up to teachers or I would believe that something they were saying was wrong.

A regulator is supposed to create and enforce a standard.

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

You have to empower your sales staff to use their judgment and go beyond the standards set down on paper and by the computer.

The Constitution sets out no standards for granting pardons. They require no consent from Congress, and courts can't second-guess them.

It becomes an emperor to die standing.

Gandhi held no formal position of authority. Nor was there an organized army standing behind him. What he did have were his core beliefs and the audacity to speak truth to power.

I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm through standing in lines at my age.

Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch.

I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Nobody stands above the law.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer!

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.