Quotes About Authority

A driver is a king on a vinyl bucket-seat throne, changing direction with the turn of a wheel, changing the climate with a flick of the button, changing the music with the switch of a dial.

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

You're a garbage woman with a badge,

He's trying to assert his authority by calling me onto the carpet. It's a show of force. It's weak.

Although the crew of Skylab 4 did a kind of mutiny back in 1973 when they thought they were being pushed too far. Ultimately they returned to work; although NASA never let any of the men fly again.

The President?" "No. Somebody with real power.

I save him my diatribe about people with bullshit EdDs and PsyDs that I've run into in academia who couldn't pass a fifth-grade science exam all insisting that they be addressed with the same reverence as the head of oncology at a research hospital.

Good science requires having your ideas challenged, and that's often difficult for the people whose paychecks you sign.

There are only two audible words on the entire tape from this man and you think he's the pope?" He asks me this as if he's a father questioning me, his teenage daughter, about the dent in the family car. Do men see these power relationships in the same way? Do other women? I put that question on the side burner.

My God, I'm here to help these people screw the President of the United States.

To become somebody,first you need to be under somebodie's supervision.

What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?

I]t is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.

This is a time to try men of force and vision and not to be exclusively confined to those who are judged safe by conventional standards.

Never confuse leadership with popularity.'158

It might be unpalatable in our more egalitarian era to admit it, but Churchill became prime minister by a process that was far from democratic.

Fathers also had the right to have their children imprisoned for disobedience for a month in the case of under-sixteens, and for six months for those between sixteen and twenty-one.

could not accept a position of general responsibility for war policy without an effective share in its guidance and control

ministry of justice

When the mob gains the day, it ceases to be any longer the mob. It is then called the nation. If it does not, why, then some are executed, and they are called the canaille, rebels, thieves and so forth.' Napoleon to Dr Barry O'Meara on St Helena

Parliament must give us more powers Ã¢â'¬â€œ very few would vote against it. We are now being disintegrated [sic] in morale.

never an easy subordinate.

am in favour of government of the people, for the people, but not by the people

Never confuse leadership with popularity.