Quotes About Authority

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it?

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes his time to finish all his sentences.

It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.

I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.

In reality, in the history of it, the captains are only really in charge during an engagement. The rest of the time, everyone had got the same vote. It's been very interesting finding that.

God's advice trumps Oprah's every time.

One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.

To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people who either don't have power or feel that they don't have power.