Quotes About Authority

I think in China they have a camera for every street corner, and if you jaywalk, they don't give you a ticket. They put you on the big TV screen to shame you.

I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I even burned a building down once - not intentionally, just because I was interested in fire. I remember going through the rule book, ticking off the ones I had broken and looking for the ones I hadn't.

Half the guys commenting on MS Dhoni can't even tie their shoelaces.

I've got to tell you, I'm not really a tie man. I'll wear a tie if I have to: If I'm standing in the dock and it looks like I'm facing 20 years, then I'll definitely wear the tie!

The more ties you wear, the higher rank you are.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.

My mom grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and she was a Tiger Mom. We didn't get away with much.

We've tickled the nose of the tiger, the establishment are frothing at the mouth.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

My dad was a commander in the U.S. Navy with three daughters - you can imagine the tight ship that was our family household!

We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.

We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.

Mum was a disciplinarian. Raising a child on your own forces you to have to keep the boundaries tight.

Taking responsibility is not accepting blame instead of assigning it.

So much of the work of oppression is policing the imagination.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Rome has spoken; the case is closed.

Give what you command, and command what you will.

I would not have believed the gospel had not the authority of the Church moved me.

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

The privileges of a few do not make common law.

An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.