Quotes About Authority

Les stoïciens ont voulu soutenir que nos passions dépendent entièrement de notre volonté, et que nous pouvons les gouverner avec une autorité sans bornes; mais l'expérience les a contraint d'avouer, en dépit de leurs principes, qu'il ne faut pas peu de soins et d'habitude pour contenir et régler nos passions .

No creo que cuestionar las cosas sea una enfermedad. La obediencia ciega sin cuestionamientos, es la enfermedad.

It might be pleasant to be alternately victim and executioner.

Glorious empires can be founded on crime, and noble religions on imposture.

Everybody here is a dictator of something or other. They're all office holders. That's what keeps them contented. But I'm the Supreme Dictator of all, and I'm elected once a year. This is a democracy, you know, where the people are allowed to vote for their rulers. A good many others would like to be Supreme Dictator, but as I made a law that I am always to count the votes myself, I am always elected.

When we are young, our parents run our life, when we get older, our children do.

Adolescents have a very rocky insecure time. Grown-ups treat them like children and yet expect them to act like adults. They give them orders like little animals, then expect them to react like mature, and always rational, self-assured persons of legal stature.

Bosses are the ones calling the shots, as they should in any organization. And if you think you're above your boss, that's not reality.

Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.

We have many candidates, like in reality television, but we don't really have a leader.

At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I'm doing.

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go.

I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.

I feel the UPA government has realized that it is not coming back to power.

No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

No reasonable American believes that someone can investigate their own boss.

Laws, especially those of a constitutional nature like the Basic Law, which have been formulated through reasonable legislative processes, should never be freely interpreted or lightly abandoned.

I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

Corporations do a lot of things well, but not run nations, for obvious reasons.

It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.