Quotes About Authority

Elected officials deposed each other by lawsuits.

after five minutes of getting a tongue lashing from her I had to cut Marisa off and remind her who was paying her salary and she was starting to hurt my feelings. "You don't have any feelings," Marisa said.

A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!

Es ist nichts so absurd, daß Gläubige es nicht glaubten. Oder Beamte täten.

Any society must govern according to the plane of intelligence of the more stupid mass of its members. And it must have rules, and those rules must have as few exceptions as possible.

The doctrine of spontaneous naturalism of Renaissance comes from the same source as the theory that the fight against the spirit of authority and hierarchy, the ideal of freedom of thought and freedom of conscience, the emancipation of the individual and the principle of democracy are achievements of fifteenth century. In all this light of the modern age is contrasted with the darkness of the Middle Ages.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Your clothes. Give them to me. Now.

99% of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

It turns out that the governor of California has more authority to name appointees than any elected official in America except the president of the United States and the mayor of Chicago. The

I aimed to be a leader someday, but I knew it was important to learn obedience as well.

The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.

As we used to note, some conductors are evil geniuses, but all are evil.

Leaders are particularly prone to loneliness, in no small part because real friendships at work are difficult or impossible with people under one's authority and supervision.

I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.

We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.

Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.

I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.

Just because you've seen 'My Cousin Vinny' doesn't qualify you to be a federal judge.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

I was an athlete in college - a quarterback, a leader - so people telling me what to do doesn't work.

I think I always wanted to be quarterback so I could call the play.