Quotes About Authority

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

I think we need more idiot control.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Generals aren't in the business of commenting on the correctness or incorrectness of the President's decisions. Anybody who thinks he should be able to do that ought to be fired on the spot.

People always think they know better. In football, everybody thinks they can be head coach and do it better. It's the same in F1: they always know better, even if they have no experience of it.

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.

Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.

In talking with people that have experienced it, I learned that PTSD is something that a person in a position of authority sometimes thinks they're not supposed to have. They don't always have an avenue to personally address it or even discuss it.

I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.

Honestly, the egos and the quest and thirst for power is very prevalent in Washington.

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate.

He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Those who own the country ought to govern it.

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

Art thou the King of the Jews?

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.