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Quotes About Authority

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
~ Ian Hart
Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.
~ Stevie Wonder
That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
~ Ed O'Neill
Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.
~ Billy Corgan
Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay.
~ Carlos Mencia
You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.
~ Philip Pullman
Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.
~ N. T. Wright
Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?
~ Peter Brimelow
Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see... 'We are the Proud Parents of a Child who has resisted his teacher's attempts to bend him to the will of his corporate masters'.
~ George Carlin
Instill respect for teachers.
~ Henry Louis Gates
When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.
~ Frank McCourt, Teacher Man
Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.
~ Marilyn Wallace
The teacher is the only one worth listening to.
~ Joseph Barrell
Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.
~ Joseph Barrell
Paul Gleason played the teacher. I just tortured him as best I could. 'Cause he wasn't one of the kids, you know, so it was okay. He was great.
~ Judd Nelson
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
~ Martin Lewis Perl
I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
~ Tim Robbins
When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.
~ Maya Angelou
In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.
~ Michael Craig-Martin
#EarlyAgeEntrepreneur - It feels an enormously different situation to react, when one of your ex-employee join college where you study and he standing at a position of your teacher calls you 'Sir
~ Akansh Malik
Parents, teachers, and politicians should not be judged by their popularity.
~ Min Kim
Does teacher spoil us??Because I think that they spoil us, they say the answers and they want we to remember them.
~ Deyth Banger