Quotes About Authority

Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn

I myself am a savage, owning no allegiance but to the King of the Cannibals; and ready at any moment to rebel against him.

Of course, women have long exercised influence behind the scenes. A few thousand years ago this drove Aristotle to distraction: 'What difference does it make whether women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same.'

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

When you lived it for years and years and years and seen different characters just get pummeled and squashed because 'I said so,' it gets mighty damn disturbing and it's such a downer when you're trying to get a guy to perform at the top level for the audience that he's capable of.

Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don't like it when their employees yell at them - even if their employees have it right.

I got my hand slapped for talking about fighter pay. That was a big one. I had Dana White yell at me in front of, like, 20 other fighters.

If I have to yell at Cristiano Ronaldo, I yell.

I'm the disciplinarian. Nick doesn't discipline. The cat can do whatever it wants. It can scratch on the furniture. It can do whatever it wants and Nick doesn't do anything about it. So I have to yell. I'm the bad cop. He's the good cop.

I have no problem yelling at anybody's kid - free of charge!

I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization.

In the sports hostel, I would not eat the boiled egg and would store it away in my bag. But eventually, Nambiar sir found out and gave me a yelling. There were so many eggs in my bag and they started smelling.

Governors sometimes have a hard time jumping up on a table and yelling the loudest because they've actually been there. They realize it's difficult to govern in a split environment.

If any person - white, black, brown or yellow - objects to having a police officer potentially ask them for their ID, it makes me wonder what that person is trying to hide.

When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with which my cousin Brenda, a year and a half younger, accepted her mother's definition of her as someone who needed to go to bed at six-thirty and finish every bite of three vegetables, one of them yellow, with every meal.

There are important rules in life - like not parking on yellow lines or stealing from your neighbour. But some rules are made to be broken.

Let's make it simple: Government control means uniformity, regulation, fees, inspection, and yes, compliance.

I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president - and the president alone - who always makes the final call.

In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

Do some companies have great power? Yes but only in limited ways.

It doesn't matter my political views, who I like or dislike: If a president ever asks me to do anything, I'm going to say yes.

You should get as close to the power when you're pitching something. I got my two biggest breaks with the man who owned CBS and the guy that owned Paramount, because I was dealing with the guy who would say yes or no.