Quotes About Authority

I've raised my boys the old-fashioned way, with spankings, sending them upstairs if they misbehave at parties, the works. I believe discipline is the proof of love.

There must be an authority at the state level to coordinate flood mitigation projects in upstream watersheds. Additionally, this state entity could bring together multiple stakeholders to benefit all communities in the region.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.

I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the idea of order without law. The Praetorian Guard, who were the emperor's guards, understood how they were to proceed. But for the city cops, who were called the Urban Cohorts, there was no law at all.

A king may rule the kingdom but the queen still moves the board.

I want to know why if men rule the world they don't stop wearing neckties.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.

The crown of creation.

She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.

Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.

You can't imagine how much more work I had when I was a god.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language.

Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

What luck for rulers that men do not think.