Quotes About Authority

Protesting is fundamentally submissive.

I don't conquer, I submit.

I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

I believe that it's easier for the woman to submit. That's biblical... God has equipped men to take on much more responsibility.

Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.

Journalism has a check-and-balance effect to those in power, and those in power submitted themselves to it.

An attorney general's duty is to render her opinion and honest advice; she cannot set herself up as a judge overruling the president's decision. The president need not 'convince' his subordinate that his decision reflects the best view of the law.

If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.

If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.

The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

The police force has repeatedly demonstrated an inability and unwillingness to carry out its fundamental mandate: to serve and protect the people of Hong Kong. It has been reduced to a mere instrument of repression subservient to the political agenda of Beijing's regime in Hong Kong.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.

You cannot denude the presidency of the substance and power of its office. It can't be done.

The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.