Quotes About Authority

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

It is being implied that I have pulled strings to get my son out of jail on bail. Tell me if I was so powerful why would I have allowed my son to languish in Arthur Road jail for 21 days?

The frustration of being ordered around by somebody to do something - everyone can relate to that. I think Beetle represents that - the common man caught in that morass of rules and regulations. I don't even think of it as an army strip... it's a world anyone can understand.

I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane.

I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Zidane was a leader and a strong character.

I believe that a strong man makes a strong country.

I generally play strong people and scary people.

My mother was - and is - a very strong woman; very strict. She was a serious mum; a feared parent.

I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character.

I just have that cop gene going on. I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character.

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

Serbia has shown enough patience, but it has also sent a clear and strong message that the law must be respected and that no one is stronger than the state.

I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.

I strongly discourage any intellectuals, regardless of race, from speaking on matters for which they have limited or no expertise.

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.