Quotes About Authority

Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history. And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Whenever Granny walks into a room, everyone stands up, stops, and just kind of watches her because, obviously, it's huge when she walks into a room. And I find that incredible. I kind of go, 'Ah.'

It's true: Whenever I see a government rule that could clearly be used to punish people for doing innocuous things, it is never enough for some government official to just assure me that it won't be used that way. Those assurances, after all, aren't binding; they're lip service.

Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.

Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!

Whenever I do a deal I always have the right of approval.

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

My dad was assistant governor of the prison, so there were times when he would bring some of that discipline home. He was the enforcer, whereas my mother, who was a stay-at-home mum, was always the pacifier.

What I've realized recently is that the difference between me and Mickey Mouse is, there's not a man that can go and say, 'Look, can you get me in any faster? I'm Mickey Mouse.' Whereas I can go in and say, 'Look, could you get me a table faster? I'm Princess Leia.'

In England, you can't enter the training ground without permission, whereas in Denmark, you are free to go in.

I became the prime minister of Pakistan through votes, whereas five honourable judges sent me home.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.