Quotes About Authority

Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

You have to ask the people about democracy. I know what my people want, and I cannot understand these people who violate peace.

No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me.

Any president we choose becomes a czar in Russia. I don't want czars anymore. I don't want to be a czar myself. I want to be a democratic leader.

But what we have is not democracy; it is demonocracy! We are ruled by demons.

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.

An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department.

Artists will always depend on the brick-and-mortar ecosystem to establish authority and context.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

Our government depends upon the rule of law.

Does the manager have absolute power in England? No, it depends on a budget and on the executive director that negotiates the signings of players.

Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.

I'm a deputy sheriff.

You have a responsibility as a locally elected deputy, but you also have a responsibility as the head of government.

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

Power derives from money. I always wanted to make a lot of money on my own, to have power from that.

Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.

We use language that has been designed to keep order, and to keep people in line.

I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.

I don't really care what a designer has to say.

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.