Quotes About Authority

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

You are a free woman, and then you become a prisoner, and you receive all kinds of orders. Sit here, stand there. That's it. You just, you don't have the possibility of even moving to take your bag without asking for permission.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

There's no doubt in my mind that whichever commander ordered the blowing up of Kamisiyah did so in following the instructions that he had received.

There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.

Before you can challenge a received narrative about the past, you should be expert in its established contours.

I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

There's nothing scarier than a reckless prosecutor.

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, 'Oh, yes, I want some of that!'

You can't put your name, recognition, your money in a company without having share in the control.

Fish recognize a bad leader.

Leadership is something which other people have to recognize. You cannot demand that I am a leader.

A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority is not implanted in them during childhood. Otherwise, adults will never become mature enough to recognize the rights of others.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.

I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file.

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

When I was working in the Pentagon, I had to own the recommendations I made up the chain of command.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

I'll go on record and say it's way more fun riding in front of a cop car then riding in the back cuz you can get out if you want to.