Quotes About Authority

I intend to resign my post without permission, illegally requisition numerous Company ships and men, and take them on a half-baked voyage to the other ends of the earth for a futile romantic cause. Do any of you wish to arrest me now?" The film, missing out several other historically recorded exchanges of dialogue for drama's sake, cuts to Ulrich Münchhausen commenting "The only reason we might arrest you is if you said we could not come with you.

I was honestly very nervous of Constance Wheatcroft. And I wasn't the only one. Her entire family was afraid of her. Dogs were afraid of her. Bindweed in the hedge would wither as she passed; birds would forget their nesting instincts and fly back to north Africa at the sound of her hideous cries.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

It's easy (and fair) to blame lousy management on lousy managers. But it's not enough. It's also necessary to blame the people who allow themselves to be managed so badly.

Ownership of the standard should be in the hands of those who do the work.

Instead of authority and consequence (the management staples of the factory floor), the best knowledge-work managers are known for their powers of persuasion, negotiation, markers to call in, and their large reserves of accumulated trust.

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.

Police discipline certainly does occur; it just does not often lead to change.

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

LeBron is LeBron. They're not going to call offensive fouls on him. He gets to do what he wants.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

When you go to the mayor's office and you want something done, then that person should have the authority to do it for you. And if the person can't do it for you, then you should have the ability to hold that person responsible.

The office of the president is meant to confer dignity.

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

It's easier to run for office than to run the office.

Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job.

I grew up in a world of Officer Friendly. It was just the image I had.

When I was fourteen years old, I got arrested for battering an officer and resisting arrest with violence. I was beat up by the cops and they charged me with that. There was no original arresting charge.

This is why we have a chief medical officer: to set a norm in society, make judgments on behalf of society, so that individual schools or individual parents don't have to decide.