Quotes About Authority

Being leader is a tough gig.

Playing gangsters is great. They usually dress you sharp. And you have a license to pretty much bully anybody. I mean, I wouldn't dare do that at home. My wife will give me a back hander.

There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

I don't think of the crown as this glamorous thing. It's this murderous, bejeweled thing, the crown.

Sometimes, we just take too much glee in the downfall of people in power.

I try to control my box. I always think the goalkeeper has to be the chief of the box: it's his area, and he has to defend it.

As a goalkeeper, you feel like if you're treated like adults and have your position explained to you, you respect that. You might not agree with it, but you get on with it.

Since myself and a few others like Pepe Reina, we haven't had a goalkeeper who has commanded his area as well as Alisson.

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

My power is just God-given.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

There are some directors I hear about in nighttime or some I used to work with who walk around like gods.

We're basically TV gods.

We're not gonna misread our mandate.

We have good and bad archbishops.

I think I would make a good father. I'd be a disciplinarian.

I am sure of my ability to form a good government.

There is no good time to break the law.

Parents owed their children admonition and discipline, not expressive sentiment.

If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.