Quotes About Authority

We're spending money that we don't have to solve a problem that doesn't exist at the behest of people we didn't elect.

The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

What power has law where only money rules?

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.

Every deal is a regulated deal. Regulators will tell you how to take your money home.

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

Money is economic power.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

I'm not used to having a boss. I'm the boss. I don't need the money. I'm filthy f... rich!

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

The smaller the office, the more power individuals with big money have.

I don't get why the government is the only one that gets to print money.

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.

Powerman don't need to fight, powerman don't need guns, powerman got money on his side.

My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge.

The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power.

There's sort of a chilling effect on non-profits and the media and a lot of other places because the establishment is so powerful. That's where the money is.