Quotes About Authority

If you have a class of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you think about going home on the train.

What is interesting, as well, is how much power homicide detectives have and how much respect. They are kind of rock stars, especially in New York. There are not that many of them.

It's completely normal that every player wants to be a starter. But ultimately the coach decides and we have to accept it.

What's certain is that ranking powerful people is inherently self-defeating. For starters, true potentates know who they are without being told, and they have no need to announce it.

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

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

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.

I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

A functioning police state needs no police.

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.

There is no easy way to ask serious-minded men and women who hold high office, and who have matters of state on their mind, 'Do you mind if I take a quick selfie?'

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.