Quotes About Authority

It's an old Elizabethan idea. The fool is the only one who is allowed to make fun of the king because he is a fool. I can say whatever I want about anybody else because I'm just an idiot talking - I'm not insisting that I'm any smarter than anyone else. It's satire.

No way can you ever, ever, ever evidence confusion, concern, lack of understanding. You have to be in charge. You are the guy. You have to be cooler than cool, smarter than smart.

Even the kids who seem to have a lot of freedom, their lives are pretty controlled. So what I try to do on my shows is to have kids come out on top. They're the smartest ones in the room. They're the ones in charge.

At a certain career level, it's no longer about whether you are the smartest subject-matter expert in the room.

I thought my dad was a scientist when I was young. Seriously. Because people would come up to me, and they would be like, 'Your dad is the smartest person that I've ever met.' And I was so young, so I'd be like, 'Well he just put me on a time out, so I don't agree.'

The more comprehensive your language is, the more likely people are to believe everything you're saying. It really just comes from the power of knowing you're the smartest person in the room, and if you aren't, you're definitely going to sound like it.

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.

Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament.

Headline writers love the phrase 'Power Grab,' but you can't really grab it, can you? Power is a greased watermelon, a wisp of smoke, difficult to grasp, harder to hold, impossible to control while getting both feet down in bounds.

If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a problem, I should take their advice. And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn't take their advice.

I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.

The law does not allow the FTC to just snap its fingers and temporarily block a merger.

Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.

Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.

My mom and brother are both doctors, and it seems crazy that so many people think science is a mutable idea.

How far do you go in following orders? So many people use it as an excuse, right? 'I was following orders.' But what does that mean?

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.

USDA regulations spell out precisely what sort of facility and system is permissible, but they don't set thresholds for food-borne pathogens. (That would require the USDA to recall meat from packers who failed to meet the standards, something the USDA, incredibly, lacks the authority to do.)

General, you may attack'...He gave no further directions...With that word it was out of his hands. It had never really been in his hands at all. And yet his was the responsibility.

At an early age, it seems to be a part of the human condition to rebel against some type of authority as our perceptions of the world change with experience.

Like any government, it seeks to retain a monopoly on violence.

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