Quotes About Authority

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.

Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they look like.

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

Abolish the monarchy. That is my populist take.

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.

I've always had a healthy disregard for authority - it allows me to do my job as a portrait photographer and not as someone who is playing the power game.

Morality is the least of my concerns. To me, morality in a society that - however moral its pose - is hierarchically organized is simply a lie, an alibi for the inequalities that exist in society.

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do.

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

The double bind lowers its boom on women in positions of authority, so those who haven't yet risen to such positions have not yet felt its full weight.

Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

When people understand that they are constantly monitored, they are more conformist - they are less willing to take up controversial positions - and that kind of mass conformity is incompatible with democracy.

Often, when people like me are elected or appointed to positions of senior leadership, the rules of the game seem to change.

I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess that little extra authority on our beliefs. I also see myself as a Canadian writer.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.