Quotes About Authority

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

I give my children a lot of freedom, which I suppose a lot of parents don't do. I do have rules but nothing like no noise, no music.

I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.

I didn't care about anyone or listen to nobody, only my father or mother. I would fight my coaches and say: 'Who are you to scream or shout at me? Are you my dad? Talk to me normally.'

Everything in North Korea was about the leader, all the books, music and TV.

North Korea is a very Confucius country. We respect the elders, the hierarchy. It's not like America where anyone can step up and do things, we have our tradition.

Before Kim Jong Il died, it wasn't like one day Kim Jong Un took over. Kim Jong Il made sure his son was known to the North Korean people and it was clear that he was the next heir. He prepared him for at least three years beforehand.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

Notwithstanding my personal affection for Director Comey, I thought it was appropriate to seek a new leader.

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

That was kind of scary. You got the sense as a little kid that you might be at risk now, and then you're like, 'Why are we at risk? It's because my grandfather is in charge of all of this.' You can't really realize the magnitude of a job like that when you are eight.

In an age that is sometimes nowadays frightening or confusing, we feel reassured by the almost parental-like authority of experts who tell us so clearly what it is we can and cannot do.

It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.

We have a strong government and are a nuclear state. Even if our government was completely destroyed, our nuclear missiles would be automatically deployed.

It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one.

I was a class clown; the nuns didn't like that.

My mom dragged me by my ear to Catholic school because I was a cutup and thought I needed to see the nuns.