Quotes About Authority

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

God, I've played a lot of policeman.

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.

We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually be a policeman.

U.S. society doesn't want to play the role of international policeman.

Maybe I have some god-given gift to act as a policeman.

The BJP decides its own policies.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.

We think the government is running the country, but it is just a policymaker. Unknowingly, people are inviting the government to run their lives. The only business of the government is to come up with the right policies.

There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'

In any war, mistakes happen on the ground; this is not the policy of the government. We are a government that functions according to laws.

No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.

I don't want Congress setting monetary policy.

The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

Architecture is definitely a political act.

Architecture is always political.

I have no political issues that I need to seek central authorities' advice on.

Our political leaders, our top generals, our military brass, our national security apparatus are grossly incompetent or, worse, corrupt.

If political leaders want respect, they will begin by enforcing the global rule of law.

India has a law. The political parties or the religious heads have no right to control that law.