Quotes About Authority

I'm not sure why, but I seem to be drawn to stories about abuses of power. But I'm also drawn, not so much to victims' stories, as stories that tend to show how power works. Because if you don't understand the criminals, you can't figure out how to stop the crimes.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

I think any politician, regardless of their religious conviction, has to be a megalomaniac - they have to be! Anyone who works in that kind of job has to be so full of himself to do that kind of thing.

The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Those who rule data will rule the entire world.

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

Paul Krugman, a professor at MIT and a consultant to the IMF, the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Trilateral Commission, is certainly a member of the establishment.

Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!

Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

It ain't nothin' till I call it.

The best comedies are the ones where the person who's in charge is the one with the vision who's said, 'I'm staying with this till the very end.'

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would operate to prevent cross-default provisions from impacting derivatives books so long as mark-to-market payments are being made in a timely fashion.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

Tina Fey could run this country before Sarah Palin could!

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.

When you talk to a Latin American president, they make you feel so tiny right from the beginning, right from the moment when they shake your hands.