Quotes About Authority

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

You'll be glad to know that I'm not taking my marching orders from the Democrats.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

In 'Battlestar' I'm the military and spiritual leader as well as a father. As a military commander I can treat Apollo only as I treat everyone else. At certain times, Adama has to be the commander and give the necessary orders, no matter how much it may pain him to do so.

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!

I believe orders should be obeyed, but sometimes you have to think about the orders you get.

I'm under contract. Whatever the UFC asks, I have to do because they are my bosses and they treat me very well. I can't complain about that, and it's this, man: When you have a boss, you need to follow orders.

I want to tell governments and courts, 'Give orders that can be implemented.' They should not give orders that work to break the faith of people.

In the Air Force, you get some weird orders, but you obey them no matter what.

Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

When you're independent and not attached to a major media organisation, they just look at you as if to say, 'Who are you again?'

Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.

The truth is that key influencers exist in all effective organizations, but a solid-line org chart won't tell you where they are.

In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.

Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.

What Mexico City cannot do and my country cannot do is to allow us to be intimidated, the authorities to be intimidated, by organized crime.

I'm very controlling. It's my worst habit. I'm also over organized, which means I end up telling my family what I want them to do at certain times, like when to get up, where to put their clothes and when they should have their breakfast.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Muslim clerics in India go to other countries, nobody knows what do they do, even the police can't go there.

I used to always rock a cap when I was in high school and get them taken away. It was an excessive amount. Like, so often that, at the end of each school year, there would be a box of all the confiscated caps. After they gave back a few caps to other kids, they would just give me the box because the rest were all my hats.

At school, I was a lot more advanced compared to the other kids but I didn't like authority and was kicked out for fighting.