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Quotes About Authority

You might think that there's some authority you could look for to answers, but all of the authorities you can think of are fake.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
You might think that there's some authority you could look to for answers, but all of the authorities you can think of are fake.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
~ Joy Baluch
When you work for other people you'll find ... that they do know what's best for them, and for the company. And you should listen to them and be respectful, but they don't know what's best for you.
~ Mike Judge
What you want, as an actor, is a great leader. I can't bear it when I work with a director who is wishy-washy and says, "What did you think?"
~ Naomi Watts
People without leverage work for those with leverage.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.
~ Rupert Murdoch
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
~ Stephen Hawking
Power corrupts and there is way too much corrupted power. Stand up and monitor the government that is supposed to work for us. That's what the Tea Party represents.
~ Ted Nugent
An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.
~ Wally Wood
Get back to work you slacker or you're fired.
~ Michael O'Leary
The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
~ Abbie Hoffman
Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.
~ Benjamin Tucker
Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? You ain't so big, you're just tall.
~ Jimmy Reed
I find it hard to manage somebody's work unless I have an intimate knowledge of how to do it myself.
~ Justin Kan
They [police] do me like that all the time! "What you work for?".
~ Miles Davis
In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?
~ Paul Gauguin
Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.
~ Richard Overy
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
~ Seth Godin
You can't be that good; you work for me.
~ Lewis Carroll
... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.
~ Mary Parker Follett
My worst work happens when I get obedient.
~ Michael Wincott
Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss.
~ Pete Townshend
Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.
~ Victor Hugo