Quotes About Authority

People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

In the Navy, the path is paved for you. Your job is to be a soldier and fit in. As long as you stick to your place, it's actually really easy.

I'm a great believer in governments doing as little as possible and people power doing the rest, so I'm in favour of governments being there to govern in the areas that need governing, not a whole heap of other things that they stick their sticky fingers into.

The FA have to be careful in telling you what you can and cannot say. If they are telling you that you cannot tell the truth, then they are on sticky ground.

Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

I see that I have, as part of my stock in trade, a very regal personality and carriage. I see that I have a kind of strength, a kind of command, and a kind of power that one would associated with a monarch.

One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.

I make the decisions nobody else has the stomach to make.

If a doctor said you had stomach cancer, would you consult Rush Limbaugh for a second opinion? Of course, that sounds like nonsense, but many Americans have no qualms about listening to political commentators and untrained activists when it comes to even more complex scientific questions.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

N.W.A had something in common with the Rolling Stones and MC5 and groups like that: the voice of rebellion. It's rebellion against your parents. It's rebellion against the system. It's rebellion against society.

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

God empowered him; and my father, when he stood to preach, he wasn't preaching his message, he was preaching God's message.

I was playing this character, Melchior Gabor, who was a rebel and who was a person who didn't let the world define him, and who stood up to authority and was this kind of revolutionary... And when I left 'Spring Awakening,' I came out of that experience feeling like... I had cultivated this side of my personality that hadn't existed before.

You knew where you stood with Sir Alex Ferguson.

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.

I'll never stop listening to police officers over politicians.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

I had stopped going to church the moment I joined the Regiment. No more could my mother nag me into God's presence.

The machine of repression can only be started, it can't be stopped - even by Putin.

Like most parents, Gloria and I had to deal with the problems of rebellion in our children. We realized that it had to be stopped quickly before it developed into a serious situation.

I could never give up athletics. Running is what I will always do. Even if, maybe, the authorities could have stopped me from running in 2009, they could not have stopped me in the fields. I would have carried on with my running; it doesn't matter. When I run I feel free, my mind is free.