Quotes About Authority

It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

I'm convinced the question of development is mainly an issue of governance and leadership.

It is not questioned that the Federal Government is one of limited powers. Its powers are such, and such only, as are expressly granted in the Constitution or are properly incident to the expressly granted powers and necessary to their execution.

The president's powers are always open to being questioned by the co-equal branches of government.

I had two elder brothers and they would thrash me if I do something wrong, then dad would thrash me. I think corporal punishment as disciplining the child is what I am questioning... I feel there are less flawed methods.

Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

I tell my students that the single most powerful thing that we have in this country - something that literally harbors no dissent and no questioning - is the all-powerful elite narrative.

You know who has done a lot of questioning of generals? President Trump.

I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.

I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.

Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.

My father wasn't allowing me control and the financial freedom that I was asking for. I was 17, about to be 18 within a year, so I started asking more questions because I felt that I needed to start learning about those things.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

Everybody will give you a certain amount of respect just because you're the boss' daughter. But if you don't follow through, you lose that pretty quick.

Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!

There was one time when we were getting beat at Highbury, and our assistant manager Pat Rice came in shouting. Arsene, in front of all of us, just went 'Pat! Sit down and be quiet!'

Quietly, without much public fuss or discussion, a new ruling class has risen in the richer nations. These men and women are unelected and tend to shun the publicity hogged by the politicians with whom they co-exist. They are the world's central bankers.

I quit school. I don't do good in following police guidelines or restrictions. For someone to put rules on a genre of music or put me in a category of rap, I can't even see how you can do that.

But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before.