Quotes About Authority

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.

Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.

Parents do not own their children. They have no 'natural right' to control their education fully.

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is.

Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.

I have to know more than everyone else in the room. In a roomful of men, I have to know more than them.

It is important to have leadership groups, but at the end of the day I need to be taking the call because I'm responsible for the team and I should know exactly what I'm doing and I believe in that.

I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.

If you have excellent people, then you have to give them the power.

You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.

They would say, 'Okay, do KP,' and I would say, 'Excuse me, but I can't do KP. I'll do it tomorrow if that's all right with you.' And they'd say, 'Hell no, it's not all right with us. You do KP.'

I'm really more of an executive.

Never trust a television executive.

Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.

I didn't listen to executives.

I find myself using the word 'executives' now.

Nobody wants the armed forces to be somehow above the law, or exempt from it.

We have to ensure we are aggressively enforcing existing laws.