Quotes About Authority

The porridge is either two hot or too cold. At any given moment in this city the police are being criticized for being heavy handed and intervening too quickly, or they're being criticized for being standoffish and not intervening quickly enough.

I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.

It's not everybody that can handle firing Denzel Washington or coming to blows and saying, 'This is what's happening because I said so.' Usually, it's the reverse.

Maybe the law don't always handle things, but that doesn't mean things don't get handled.

We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.

Being the front guy is a hard job.

I have a really hard time with people telling me what to do.

I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.

The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.

And a bit of discipline never did 14-year-olds any harm.

Governments don't like harmony.

A diploma is a dunce hat in disguise.

When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.

Authority is never without hate.

Let them hate so long as they fear.

I hated being in a convent. It's another form of power. Manipulation. Because who can say - one God for the whole universe? I think there must be millions of gods! And they're not all of them very nice.

I was creating characters early. People didn't beat me up. I scared them. I hated authority. I could also get people to do things; I was quite the early director. I could make people laugh enough to get their defences down - and then brainwash them.

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

It's hard to have fun with your friends with your bosses around.

If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors.

If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.

You can't make a manager have a coach he doesn't want. I can't make the head of the accounting department work with someone he doesn't want.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.