Quotes About Authority

When I first became a head coach in Toronto, I was more of a dictator, wanted to do everything, all the development, defense, offense, whatever it was.

I'm not Tory but I do happen to think that the Government should be allowed to govern.

Before people break the law, they need strong families - adult authority figures and the love of the family. When they step over the line, I'm a Tory. I believe in tough responses, in the law coming down on people like a ton of bricks.

When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.

I wanted total control and leadership. I wanted to buy the horses and choose the players.

When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.

I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.

Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.

The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

I'm not a team player. I'm used to having total control over everything I do.

There is a distinction between total control and enjoying total freedom.

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

Democracy is like a totalitarian.

A totalitarian power is mainly busy in keeping itself alive.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. There can't be any such thing. Totalitarianism starts when the difference between your public life and your private life is effaced.

Religion and God are totally separate. Religion is created by government. God is God.

The only way to rebel against my mother was to be totally normal.

I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

Guns were the symbols of judgment and power, so that those who were expected to exercise power and judgment had to wear them and be proficient in their use.

We are commanded by fools and incompetents.

government is but an instrument of the people, its powers forever subordinate to their rights as human beings.

In free governments, the rulers are the servants and the people their superiors and sovereigns." – Benjamin Franklin