Quotes About Authority

If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.

People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control, they work for us. They're our employees.

When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn't buy your book or attend your lectures. But, if you're leading a congregation, people feel they have the right to tell you what you should or shouldn't talk about. And that hasn't always been easy for me.

The Congress is a power-oriented party.

No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

Government is connected to everything we do.

In Brazil, we have the culture to try to conquer the refs.

You can't be a conqueror in your own home.

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

This is why it's bad to run a country by executive order: because our nation runs on laws - when everyone knows the law, and everyone knows what it is, you know both the law and the consequence, and you get that.

Of course Trump thinks he is above the law. For his entire life, he has been able to say and do whatever he felt like saying or doing - not just without consequence, but he has been able to say or do whatever he felt like saying or doing - and rise up all the way to the position of President of the United States.

What you do as president has consequences.

We are a nation of laws, and breaking those laws have consequences.

If you're going to break the rules, you have to live with the consequences.

We are a country of laws. When you take that away, the consequences are enormous.

Surveillance breeds conformity.

In a democracy, the citizens are supposed to have all the power, and the government is supposed to be the means by which the citizens exercise that power. But when you have a surveillance state, the state has all the power, and citizens have very little.

I don't have a problem with stepped-up surveillance as long as we follow the rule of law.

The government harasses everything. The government must keep a constant surveillance of all activities by black people in order to maintain their reign over them, especially when they are in a minority.

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

Keep under strict surveillance and control those secret establishments which, within your government structures, seem to regard themselves as above the law.

Representation is a sort of surveillance.

Surveillance has long been theorized as a way to control the surveilled - namely, by getting them to police themselves out of fear of being watched.