Quotes About Authority

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

Look at Julie Etchingham and Katie Derham, none of us are spring chickens frankly, I don't think people want to watch someone who's wet behind the ears, you have to look like you understand what you are reading about.

I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' and then whack a ruler across my hand. 'Well,' I'd say, 'if God loves me, can you call God? Can you ask Him if it's all right that I didn't do my homework? If it's not, then let Him hit me.'

Why do the police need to know where I am? In the hands of a benevolent government, they could be looking after your interests, but what if the next government isn't so benevolent?

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

There was no such thing as child abuse. Parents owned their children. They could do whatever they wanted.

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.

Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.

I always delegate. If someone is very good at something, whatever it is, he will be in charge.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less.

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

The Constitution gives the Congress absolute authority within the District of Columbia on any legislative issues whatsoever.

Laws to protect 'public health' are potentially infinite, especially once they no longer have to be supported by any research whatsoever.

Today's policies and political activity treat people like pawns. More than ever before, attempts will be made to use people like cogs in a wheel. People will be handled like puppets on a string, and everyone will think that this reflects the greatest progress imaginable.

What the heck is a king? I'm a cog in the wheel.

Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.

When I get stopped by the police, I keep my hands on the wheel. I'm not going to move.

I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'

The future of my government is not in the hands of the opposition. The steering wheel is in my hands.

When in doubt, mock the powerful, not the powerless.

Whenever regulation increases, personal freedom decreases.