Quotes About Authority

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

The Last Argument of Kings.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.