Quotes About Authority

In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.

The bottom line is: If any government has a rule that would legally allow it to punish people for things that don't deserve punishment, then that law should be scrapped or changed.

Classes were incredibly boring. I took to dreaming. They took to punishing me. I was always working off punishments for not doing what I was supposed to do.

I first got into music when I heard punk, and it was saying maybe it's OK if you don't live up to the expectations various authorities have for you.

I was always taught by punk to think for yourself and to question authority. That's what I've always tried to do.

I don't mind being called a puppet. But I'm the puppet of the people.

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

Obama's just a puppet - he's a puppet in a chair.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a ruler and you ask for a coin to be engraved with your likeness on it, you are probably trying to project a certain air of authority.

When a club legend becomes your manager, he automatically gets the attention of the players, purely because he had been there and done that.

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.

The FDA serves a real purpose: To protect public health.

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

The U.K. government has a responsibility to keep secrets in some circumstances. It also has a responsibility not to abuse that power for other purposes.

The FISA Amendment Act of 2008 actually allows some of the things we were doing under the president's authority only against al Qaeda, it allows them for all legitimate foreign intelligence purposes.

We've got our own power - the power of the purse.