Quotes About Authority

I am ultimately convinced that people must first be told that so and so is great ,and then, after a period of given time, they come to believe it for themselves.

I'm super-obsessed with law enforcement. I'm what you'd call a 'cop fan.'

I've never played anybody like a cop before.

I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

I would not want to be a cop.

When you play a cop, it's a different feeling altogether.

When the cops are trying to arrest you, if you fight back, things go wrong.

I'm scared if the cops pull me over.

I don't get emails from my corporate overlords.

So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business.

Whether it's a church or politics or a corporation or a college or anywhere, leadership matters.

The government of Dubai, as much as it is a government, it is a corporation.

What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.

There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.

I'm against bureaucratization, corruption, seeing the same people in power.

I could never have any corruption from the state because I never had any business with the state.

The casting couch exists in every business where there is power dynamics and manipulation.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

People have to listen to somebody speak, that the person that you're listening to is saying the right stuff, and that's all that really counts.

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.

I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.

No matter how superficially fair the judge is, he is still the complete autocrat in the courtroom, and he still comes from the ruling class.

The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body.