Quotes About Authority

I was at this fancy school, and I felt out of place, so I rebelled.

We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.

The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

I'm the most democratic fascist you'll ever meet. I listen to everybody, and then I make a decision.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

In almost any country, probably in Russia in particular, it's fashionable to criticise people in power. If you come out in support of someone like me, you're going to be accused of trying to ingratiate yourself.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

It always helps to have someone who can say, No, we can do it faster this way, or We have to break the rules, even our own rules, to get things done.

No one has the license to decide someone's fate.

In some ways, I was looking for a father figure, and I found that in Donald Trump.

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.

I am in favour of a dictatorship.

Real conservatives are in favour of all kinds of unelected power and authority.

If there are any decisions that need to be taken in some circumstances, they should be in the favour of the most experienced driver.

A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

We are way overstepping bounds as federal legislators.

I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system.

I think when you've been exposed to the Creator of the universe, then the federal government doesn't seem very powerful.

We actually do need a federal government, but we need a limited one.

There are things that should be allocated to states' rights - that's Gryffindor - and certain things allocated to the federal government, which is Slytherin.