Quotes About Authority

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.

Chuck Schumer is the face of the ruling class.

The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all.

I find in most circumstances, people leave bosses, not companies.

I'm not allowed to be woken up under any circumstances except if my house starts burning. Then my wife is authorised to wake me up, but only if fire gets to the door of my room.

The state is there to serve the citizen, not the reverse.

In any civil society, there's a serious problem when confidence in the rule of law is shaken.

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it through any power standing outside of that state - be it a private person or be it a community superior, collateral, or subordinate to that state.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

I am the candidate who defends the superiority of politics over the administration, the bureaucracy, the economy, and so I think it is politics which must decide.

I feel that Sarkar is a realistic superman in his life.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

Even a superpower has limits.

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.

Demarcation disputes between supervisor and student are always difficult, probably impossible to resolve... it is the supervisor who has the final responsibility for the success or failure of the project.

Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.