Quotes About Authority

An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.

The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.

There's nothing more dangerous than a powerful person who is imagining themselves as being powerless.

You feel kind of powerless as a kid, so I wanted to create a world where the kid actually gets some power.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

The gatekeepers don't control the gates, and the powers that be aren't as powerful.

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

I'm challenging the powers that be.

Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.

The romance that can never really gel because of the powers that be... that's a great conflict.

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.

I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.

We know that's the bottom line: if money is made, the powers that be pay attention.

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.

War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.

As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.

With great powers come great responsibilities; with plenary powers come plenary responsibilities.

A morality clause is a grey area that the powers that be say if it is immoral, than it's immoral, and you are getting fired.

One knows something is important when the powers that be choose not to acknowledge it in public.

My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution.