Quotes About Authority

away from him. We wouldn't want there to be any more misunderstandings, would we?' 'I thought you said I had carte blanche.

When Derek Abbott was arrested in London, he didn't care. I still remember the day he came in, sitting there with this look on his face like he was the lord of the manor who'd accidentally wandered into the servants' quarters. The police weren't going to get anywhere near him, not in a hundred years!

They think, always, that they are cleverer than they really are, that they have the ability to defeat the police, the rule of law, the very essence of society in order to achieve their ends.

them cradling automatic machine guns. Mrs. Stellenbosch

You used me to get back at Grunshaw.' 'I thought you'd be pleased, mate. She's going to have egg all over her face. The Assistant Commissioner isn't going to be pleased.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

institutions. But they have consequences.

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

Looking back, I clearly understand that seeing a 'chain of command' approach in my house was a positive thing for me. My father provided a strong point of view on life and was a leader. Boys, especially, need that.

In order to keep the judiciary independent of the executive, the constitution provided impeachment as the only method for disciplining errant judges.

A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

If you read the Senate rules, there are provisions where the Senate parliamentarian can be overridden.

If you engage with the police, filled with fear, you're more likely to make really bad decisions that than provoke them to take action.

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.

Climate change denial, anti-vaccination proponents, creationist teachers, faith healers, fake bomb detector peddlers, psychic frauds, alternative medicine pushers... we need scientific thinking. We need a generation of kids who think an experiment is more important than a preconceived notion or an argument from authority.

You almost need a psychology degree to be a manager these days. Even with Fabio Capello - who may not have done too well with England - you could tell why he had been so successful in the past. He had real authority.

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

We need to be following the direction of our public health professionals and the CDC.

There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

Business leaders shape public opinion.