Quotes About Authority

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.

The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

Only individuals can desire and act. The existence of an institution such as government becomes meaningful only through influencing the actions of those individuals who are and those who are not considered as members.

In business terms, if you take over a company and oust its CEO or fire a divisional chief, you run the place. But in institutional terms, as it happens, it doesn't at all work that way.

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

The Internet is not kind to established institutions.

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.

I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.

Every institution has its own dignity, and if people don't respect the dignity of those institutions, it affects the whole system.

We don't want to govern the country without democratic institutions.

I think we've now gotten to this point where we're growing more and more distrustful of our institutions, be they government or corporations or otherwise.

I think it is definitely right to listen to the Party and follow up government's instructions.

Mr. Modi has to take instructions from Nagpur, and whatever Nagpur says, he will do.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

It's very insulting when you're in charge and someone is talking down to you.

We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat.

Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can't do or what they must or must not do.

The secretary actually already has a good deal of authority within the confines of the Affordable Care Act. Step one really is a question of whether or not HHS will continue to reimburse insurance companies for cost-sharing expenses.

Some people trust an insurance company over the government, while others trust the government over insurance companies.

Bill Gates can't control a high-level-energy dog, because his energy is very low, very calm. Very intellectual. A dog doesn't see that as leadership.

I had done drama at university, but I never thought I could be a director. There were so few female directors then. I just assumed you had to be a man to be a director. I also assumed you had to be extremely authoritarian and extremely intellectual, none of which I was.

The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.