Quotes About Authority

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

No power in the country can dissolve the government.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

I like to keep a distance between me and the players because the biggest responsibility I have is to make decisions.

People may not know what tier of government has competence over which policy area but they do draw a distinction between the local and the national.

I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.

As a district judge, I view my role quite differently than the role of legislators.

I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to believe that they can run the universe.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

Who's to say who's an expert?

When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.

I'm in politics, but I'm not an expert in politics.

I know there are a lot of experts in the media - a bunch of smart guys out there who know exactly what they're talking about all the time. They don't know what they're talking about.

What the manager says is what's important to me. What experts say doesn't interest me and never will. I know what I can do. I've not been playing at the top level for nothing. I've been successful.

We simply keep telling our kids that you have to listen to us, you have to do what we say, but do we take the effort of explaining it to them that why they need to listen to us?

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

Growing up, it was always a huge battle with my mom to let me color my hair or add extensions.

America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.

The Indian government is extraordinarily large, and it is difficult to try and believe that one leader can make all the change. This is a federal system.

If I see a cop, it's not like, 'Oh, there's a cop who's gonna keep me safe.' It's more, 'There's a cop who might be having a bad day, so don't make eye contact.'

I can understand the individual who is driven by biases. I can sit with him across the table and can talk to him, deal with him. But bias in the man whom we put in the seat of power and who decides to play on it... That man will destroy the very fabric of the nation.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

It's the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that's failed.