Quotes About Authority

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

I don't mind being called Maddy at all, but I mind the closeness that you assume you get by calling me by my pet name. So merely by calling me Maddy, I don't give you the authority to come and put your hand around my shoulder.

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

I went to the Old Bailey, and I met a judge, and I was petrified, but they were like, 'Oh, you're an actor, well, great.' It was a bit like we're cut from the same cloth a little bit.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

I always tell Phil we're like the party poopers. If we ever get invited to a player party, between the two of us, we're like the downers. Like, 'Put down that beer!' Or, 'Should you really be eating those nachos?'

Any political or philosophical agenda can and will be perverted by power and/or fear.

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

It's one of the guiding philosophies of my life - not fearing any authority on earth.

We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.

It doesn't hurt to be a former governor. It helps in terms of getting your phone calls returned.

Sometimes I'll be somewhere, and the cops will show up to kick me out and end up just asking for a photo.

I don't necessarily want my physician making all my decisions.

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

I'd no more listen to a physicist's advice on my fertility than I would let a mechanic cut my hair.

Laws of physics don't necessarily apply to real-life political situations.

I had a few teachers when they would hear a noise they would immediately be like, 'Nadine, outside!' I spent about two years standing outside the physics classroom.

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.