Quotes About Authority

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.

My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule: no man could come in his house without his permission.

I tend to do things without my parents' permission.

The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

I want the least number of decision makers. We want to empower people to get more things done and also give permission to question orthodoxy.

I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto.

The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

I can't believe people think they need permission to drive. Or permission to do anything.

Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house.

In my family, there was one parent you asked for money and the other for permission to do things. You could never get both out of one parent.

I always joke about how I get excited to go to the grocery store without permission.

I do have a carry permit.

I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.

I will not permit anyone to put chaos and disorder in the country under any pretext.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.

The first, and overarching, count in the new indictment is that slavery permitted one group of people to exercise unrestrained personal domination over another group of people.

Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government.

To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.

It is through separation that you will win: no representatives, and no candidates!

Laws! We know what they are, and what they are worth! Spider webs for the rich and powerful, steel chains for the weak and poor, fishing nets in the hands of the government.