Quotes About Authority

My name is "A Pimp named Slickback" Wait... A Pimp?? ... Named Slickback. Yes, please say the whole thing if you would. Yes, that includs the "A Pimp Named" part. Yes Tom, everytime.

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say 'Stop, or I'll say stop again.'

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.

Elected office holds more perks than Elvis' nightstand.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.

The school had a big problem with drugs... especially Class A.

Somebody figured it out- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

Let me be clear. Last I was aware you were neither my husband nor my father nor my King. Therefore, any control you may imagine you hold over me is just that- imaginary

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

Apparently they're going to bring in 'Super Asbos'. But 'Asbos' already sound too cool. Teenagers see them as a badge of honour. They should call them 'Gaybos' or 'Bender Badges'.

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.

"God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?

It's going to require numerous IRA agents.

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.

Laura Oliva, A World Apart