Quotes About Authority

In 1600, when Shakespeares audience at the Globe heard Hamlet for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.

The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.

I'm not the president, so the president, has top secret clearance immediately. I don't. It takes time.

I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.

The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would." "Rose would have gotten herself arrested for treason the first time Tatiana asked her to do something.

By the time executives get to high levels, they are good at making others feel confident in their judgment, even if there's no strong basis for the judgment.

"In a time of war, the president must have the power he needs to make the tough decisions, including, if need be, the decision to grant himself even more power."

As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.

Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.

Scout, I´m telling you for the last time, shut your trap or go home - I declare to the Lord you´re gettin´ more like a girl every day!" With that, I had no option but to join them.

Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?

When you're president, you can't vote present. You have to make a decision. Sometimes it's a split second decision. You don't have time to think about it. You've got to actually decide.

In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.

God of ages, Lord of Time, mine is the right to be wrong.

That's what I call 'Guiliani Time', my friends. 'We've got a problem. Let's kill it.'

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.

…majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows.

Life is to be lived by being in charge of time.

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity. But my attitude toward them has not changed. Has not changed.