Quotes About Authority

Political dictatorships take possession not just of money and belongings but of narrative.

Anyone can be seduced by the possession of power and influence.

Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

Fight hierarchy and bureaucracy as hard as you possibly can. Don't ever let it become the master; always remember it's the servant.

Nobody in show business can possibly get away with making fun of their boss.

When people go to the post office or any federal building, they expect to see pictures of their government leaders displayed.

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

The central government role is to ensure that what goes on in the school is revealed to parents and potential parents. It is not, absolutely not, to run the school.

We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Power is paradoxical.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.