Quotes About Authority

Just because you have opposition doesn't make you a great leader.

Good executives, like all good leaders, must expect opposition when making decisions or when making or enforcing the law. But executives must engage those that disagree with them.

As far as the opposition to Jayalalitha was concerned, it was that she was misusing authority for personal corruption, denying people their liberties, attacking the opposition with violence, and there was nobody who could challenge her.

For better or worse, when I was director of public prosecutions I had to deal with every challenge that came up, and come up with an answer. Being in opposition, you're not taking the decisions; you're saying what you would do if you were in power, and that's deeply frustrating.

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

I know my kids best. I know what morals and values are right for my children. I think we should not have an oppressive state telling us what to do.

When you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

I say, do not mess with Oprah. The one person in America you shouldn't mess with.

There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can and can't do. You've got to have 100 percent support from everybody who's behind the show, across the board.

The president does not have the option of choosing which laws he will follow and which he will ignore.

Respect for the rule of law is not optional; it's fundamental.

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Justice is merely incidental to law and order.

If you want to see law and order, then come to Uttar Pradesh.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.

I have killed no one and I have ordered no one to be killed.

He ordered killings as easily as he ordered linguine.

I never liked being ordered around - which, of course, was an overreaction. I eventually found out that I didn't mind being ordered around at all when it was by someone who knew what he was doing.