Quotes About Authority

When I was captain, John Wright was making all the decisions and I followed like an obedient student.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

Judges have a hard job. It's not just putting someone in jail or slapping someone on the wrist and giving them a punishment, but it's protecting society as a whole.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

While the seeming independence of the federal judiciary has played a vital part in making its actions virtual Holy Writ for the bulk of the people, it is also and ever true that the judiciary is part and parcel of the government apparatus and appointed by the executive and legislative branches.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists.

If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.

I used to get in trouble a lot in school because I would write very naughty stories and poems in class.

Let those who will - write the nation's laws - if I can write its textbooks.

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.

Certainly, every student and school ought to have standards and evaluation, but who sets those standards, and who writes the test? Whoever controls the test controls the school.

History teaches me that the dollar rules and whoever writes history writes it however they want.

Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says.

If you want to change a law, you have to pass a law. Presidents don't write laws. Congress writes laws.

Is that, in the end - that capacity to hurt - the most essential ingredient for a ruler?

I am a woman who slept with my father the Pope. They say I did, at least, and so does he. And who am I to make of the Pope a liar, And who is he to make a liar of me?

The master is bringing Darwin through to examine lower life-forms, Rhoda. Straighten your spine or you'll be mistook for a mollusk.

All tyrants were harsh, but fire was more ungovernable than most.

There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors.

The person who asks questions like yours always gets to choose the terms