Quotes About Authority

I've actually said 'get off my grass' to people before. They were skateboarding on my grass!

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself.

There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern project has been about delegating power over us to skilled people who want to do the work and be rewarded accordingly.

I know I'm skilled - I know my background - and the people who are familiar with my credentials know better than to try me.

Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

Just fear me and love me...and do as I say...and I will be your slave.

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

It's easy to respect a general, but it's hard to love them.

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

Love'? What do you know about love?" "It's at the heart of every story," Rollo said with authority. "If humans could avoid falling in love, you would never get yourselves into any trouble.

Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power.

I'm the person with the final say on everything. I really love being in that position.

'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'

I'm not strong-willed actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.

When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.