Quotes About Authority

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

Today, parliaments are more important because of the need of legitimacy, of the popular legitimacy, of public opinion legitimacy of politics. Parliaments are, at the end of the day, the only true legitimacy.

Politicians know that as public opinion learns to assert itself more aggressively, a government that goes against a presidential opinion can find itself on the defensive.

Police chiefs know a thing or two about public safety.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

I don't have a problem with a board that advises, that supervises, one with which we can have a discussion. But we will never accept a board that has control over Puerto Rico's affairs.

I own two beautiful homes, and I'm always half-expecting the cops to pull in, seize me with firm compassion, and escort me out.

I did my schooling at Holy Angels, where they had stringent rules. I coloured my hair blond and red and was pulled up by the principal.

Bully pulpit of the presidency is really tough to fight.

I legally can punch someone in the face and not get arrested for it, which most human beings can't do.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for.

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.

Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.

The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn't call it grounding; he'd just say, 'You're on punishment.' Sometimes we'd be on punishment a lot.

Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.