Quotes About Authority

I want it to be one-sided. I don't want to take any bumps or bruises: I want to go out and dictate all aspects and go out the way I came in. I'm looking to dominate and dictate.

We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.

There can be only one Captain to a ship.

I can go to my own opening, and the security guard will tell me that I have to go to the security entrance.

When I'm in the huddle, it is my huddle, and I mean, that's how it needs to operate.

I see the government operating the way the founders intended.

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.

I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management.

You don't have to be captain to have an opinion.

To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.

It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. - Oscar Wilde (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you the same advice. I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of ant use to oneself.

In America the president reigns for 4 years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

Ordinary cruelty is simple stupidity. It comes from the entire want of imagination. It is the result in our days of stereotyped systems, of hard-and-fast rules, of centralisation, of officialism, and of irresponsible authority. Whenever there is centralisation there is stupidity. What is inhuman in modern life is officialism. Authority is as destructive to those who exercise it as it is to those on whom it is exercised.

People who shout so loud, my lords, do nothing; the only men I fear are silent men

There are three kinds of despots.  There is the despot who tyrannises over the body.  There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul.  There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul and body alike.  The first is called the Prince.  The second is called the Pope.  The third is called the People.  The Prince may be cultivated. 

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view.

At the beginning a man was wealthy because he was powerful — now he is powerful because he has money. Intellect reaches the throne only when money puts it there. Democracy is the completed equating of money with political power.

for no god may undo what another god has done...

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.