Quotes About Authority

I don't think you should necessarily listen to a celebrity just because he is one. But if you can marshal your celebrity and really steep yourself in whatever issue you're trying to promote, it can actually move the ball forward, and we've done that.

Government should steer, not row.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

My stepfather was mean to me and caused many an argument between my mother and myself. Once he even bawled me out for using one of my cars.

If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire?

Never, ever command respect. Always earn it. A leader steps into the arena, and a great leader should never ask anyone to do anything that they haven't done or they haven't experienced.

I think there's few cases in history where the C.E.O. steps down and is also the founder and reports to someone and that works.

How long shall thy Madness outbrave our justice?

break his hold on power, as…we had come to expect," the first president Bush and his national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, wrote in their 1998 joint memoir, A World Transformed. Third, the U.S. military didn't

The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.

Behavior that Christians would never support in any other context suddenly becomes perfectly acceptable, even praiseworthy, simply because the state has declared that a war is under way. (That's what Voltaire meant when he said, "It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.")

The State then uses this monopoly to wield power over the inhabitants of the area and to enjoy the material fruits of that power.

the people who attacked Mr. Paul are much more concerned with staying in power than they are with protecting my family and yours.

We have had a close shave, I can tell you. If the French had landed in force, if the peasants throughout the country had rallied to them. The Irish must be taught a lesson. London will expect that. We are schoolmasters as well, you see. Scullery maids and hangmen and schoolmasters. The lessons taught by armies are hard ones.

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

attempts to maintain aristocratic entitlement through "mystification and concealment," as an 1835 newspaper put it.

No, it is intellectuals who call the shots, people with graduate degrees and careers in government, academia, law, and the professions.

Anti-populism is always about the powerful lording it over the weak; the credentialed and the high-born reminding the world that the definitions of goodness and justice and truth are whatever they determine.

Urging a boss to punish a worker for an overheard remark is the kind of officiousness that people sometimes resent.

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.