Quotes About Authority

Studies show that if people think that they are treated fairly by the police, that matters almost more than what the result is. If you get stopped for a traffic stop and feel that you are treated courteously and fairly, you are much more likely to accept the fact that you got a speeding ticket.

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land', in most instances they're not even law.

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

I believe in treating players like adults - though if some of them behave like children, you have to treat them as such! - and I think there is big respect the other way from players to the manager.

So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.

My mother treats me exactly the same as she has always done, and the same as my older sisters. She tells me off when I need it, and sometimes I do need telling to go to my room or to do my homework.

Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.

Officers are not fruit. I can't pick them off a tree.

God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees.

Usually, with 'Star Trek,' you always trust the captain. The captains are always going to pull us through; the captain's always going to win.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

The bureaucrats tremble because they don't perform. In the past nobody checked their work. Now that I do it they are scared.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

When you're the president, there's tremendous respect, and everybody goes out of their way respecting you and honoring you... it can be a trap. Nobody says 'Boo' to you, and nobody tells you you're wrong, hardly, if you have the wrong people around you.

At the most basic level, if men have institutional power, they have tremendous influence to change those institutions.

I'm not one to say many good things about Obamacare, but one of the nice things in it is it does give a tremendous amount of authority to the secretary of HHS.

Privacy is tremendously important. I believe the American people, and all people, should be skeptical of government power, should ask hard questions: What is the authority? What is the oversight? That's the way it ought to be.

What separates us from other camera companies is that the vision guy is the decision maker. That was one of my biggest advantages at Oakley, and it's the same at Red - I'm in the trenches, in the product development, and I make the final call.

Faith in technocrats over politicians is not a trend from which Britain is exempt.

Social media has exacerbated a trend whereby people speak with complete authority on every subject, regardless of how informed they are.

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.

No government intent on persecuting its critics will want to leave the outcome of a trial to chance.

The chief of the tribe is supposed to be the father of all people of the tribe. That is the Haitian way.

An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.