Quotes About Authority

Some coaches prefer players who will just do whatever he tells them to. It's like, if you're at school with a load of 10-year-old boys and you tell them to jump, everyone will start to jump. But the intelligent boy will ask, 'Why should I jump? Why?' That can be difficult for a lot of coaches, and I understand that.

Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

When my mother tells me to do something, I'll do my own thing. A strong character can be good, but sometimes it is not good. I hope it's good in my case.

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

The coach is the boss at the end of the day. I do whatever he tells me and don't ask questions.

The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there's no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

We will do whatever the government tells us to do, which is a critically important principle of the Chinese market economy, and there is nothing more for discussion about it.

Now, can some cops be overbearing, rude? Yeah. But we have a process for that. Do what the officer tells you to do, and file a complaint. That's the process. You don't attack a police officer on the street or resist arrest because you think you're being hassled.

My team or I didn't enjoy any administrative authority in the creative role play for the Telugu version of 'Queen.'

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

The Queen rarely loses her temper, but when she does, she brooks no argument.

Quite frankly, I don't want someone with the temperament of a middle school pubescent boy in the president's office.

I would write a scientific paper with the devil, if it was on high temperatures. The fellow's probably an authority.

Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance.

Whenever the Ram temple is built, it will be by the BJP only.

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.

At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.