Quotes About Authority

I don't have any influences, I influence people. People watch me.

A manager can never accept somebody at the top influencing his decisions about the team.

I want to be influential as a legislator.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

I was the eldest of five children, and although I never saw myself as any kind of leader, as the eldest, like it or not, you have some power inherent in that position.

A woman, by nature, is more emotional than a man and is not equipped to approach certain responsibilities with the authority that has been inherent in man.

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

As a social anarchist, I believe that capitalism itself is an inherently exploitative hierarchical situation - you do have a boss, you do have somebody in charge.

I was 11 years old when I was initially brutalized by the police, just for horse-playing with my friends and not responding to the police in the way they wanted me to.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.

If you give the boss all the decision-making power, they see the world through their eyes. The big innovations are generally such a shift that they won't see it. For a long time, it looked like it was just inevitable that you would get slow and bureaucratic.

Where conservative Catholics have the power to resist what seem like false ideas or disastrous innovations they must do so.

Leapfrog innovation - consistent, constant, ridiculous leapfrog innovation - only happens within a dictatorship. Any time you try to do something really innovative, most people aren't going to understand it until after they experience it. So when you're developing in innovation, you have to be a dictator.

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

The paternalism of the medical industry is insane.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

I'm an unelected adviser. I can't insist on my way.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.

My instinct is to be very controlling.