Quotes About Authority

There are some showrunners who run their room like dictators, from what I hear.

Red is a benevolent dictatorship.

The best part of owning a blog is the fact that you are in control. You can write about anything you want to write about. You can decide how your blog looks. You can decide who to target. You can decide how to monetize the blog. You have full control!

I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.

'The Catcher in the Rye' was targeted by some schools as a book too risque to read and certainly not appropriate for young minds. My parents certainly would not have approved of the book, but I secretly read it when I was in 7th grade. I felt so rebellious, and my young mind loved it.

I've gotten stopped for reckless eyeballing, for staring too hard. These officers think they're Tarzan and this is a jungle, that all the animals need to be tamed.

The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control.

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

I'm a task master.

It's time to roll back superfluous governmental regulations and limit government to its sole task: safeguarding the rights of its citizens.

You cant argue the tasks with a despotic autocrat. It doesnt work.

Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are compulsory - as we see at this moment in the United States - create a dazed population, a 'learned' population, a mentally pretentious population, such as we have never seen before.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

Kudos to people who put themselves forward as the arbiters of taste.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

People who've read my reviews know my tastes, know how I approach a book, know my background. I can write with believable authority. It doesn't mean I'm always right.