Quotes About Authority

I don't want The Flash to become a vigilante. I don't want him to abuse the power.

Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.

A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

When a riot happens in a city or a town or a village, the man in charge of the place is held responsible, and the same thing has happened to Modi.

I'd been in so many villages. I'd be like, 'Up against the wall, and shut the hell up!' So I'm like, why would these people be kind to me?

I would have loved to do a film like 'Piku' or 'Neerja.' But I never got a role where a woman played an authoritative role. In my time, the hero and the villain were both men. The heroine was only the victim.

They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone.

If you're ruling the world, you can't trust anybody. Because even those who profess to be working in your interest - those are also villains in and of their own right.

Law and Justice are the most vindictive gang in Europe.

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here.

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.

The Senate cannot confirm an individual... who would support a scheme that violates our Constitution, eviscerates congressional authority.

No matter how senior an official is, if he violates party discipline and the law of the country, he will be seriously dealt with and punished.

A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.

Arizona did not make illegal, illegal. It is a crime to enter or remain in the U.S. in violation of federal law. States have had inherent authority to enforce immigration laws when the federal government has failed or refused to do so.

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.