Quotes About Authority

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.

Shoot first and ask questions later, and don't worry, no matter what happens, I will protect you.

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.

We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country.

Well we'd just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he's a big hunk isn't he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it's quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him.

Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

There are dictators a bit worse than me, no? I'm the lesser evil already.

Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening.

The black police in Compton are worse than the white police.

Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.

Our governments have taught us that we should worship only two people - one is 'chacha' and the other 'bapu.'

I am a god of professional wrestling. You should worship every step I take and every word that comes out of my mouth.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

My worst nightmare when I was in school was that I would get into trouble. I never got in trouble. I was a good student.

So often, when you're an actor, you're told what to do and what to say and what to wear. Your opinion is, at best, tolerated and, at worst, not wanted.

The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.