Quotes About Authority

Every time a police agency pepper-sprays or uses pain-compliance holds against our people, their cars should burn.

I don't need equal time, I am equal time!

When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.

You can't propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore.

If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.

The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee-at least not all the time.

I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.

We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

I am in control at all times.

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.

The only time you have a free press is when you own one.

Leaders are forced to kill all the time. Then they have to learn to live with the decisions they make. Just like I'm going to learn to live with mine.

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.