Quotes About Authority

Now you know who bows down to whom. - Emma

All the desks in this room are bolted down, Sutton. Just so you know." Uh, okay.

The friendship between officers is tarnished by the need for one or another to be promoted. The kindness of a captain is predicated on the obedience and efficiency of his underlings.

The various governments of various worlds, no matter how different, all agreed on one thing: people should not be able to disappear from the radar and stop being traced. Because that denied government's ability to identify troublemakers and rebels, criminals and those who simply wanted to be left alone. And that would not be permitted.

All power in human hands is liable to be abused.

At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me.

It used to be you rose up through the ranks, and by the time you got a job as a boss, you had done the work of everybody beneath you.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

The next time you drop my jacket, I'll drop you!

We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.

The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.

Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.

I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.

When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.

From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.