Quotes About Authority

He's a drill sergeant

But she couldn't shake off her annoyance at her dad, at her brothers, at Father Donnelly, at every man who presumed to tell a woman what her duty was.

It was napoleon who once observed how easy it is to win men over through flattery simply by bequeathing a title to them or pinning a metal or token on their chest.

He knew that even his own father's authority was fragile and restricted—a king did not possess true freedom but was imprisoned by his position.

Precepts in Buddhism are not imposed by some outside authority. They arise from our own insight based on the practice of mindfulness. To be attached to the form without understanding the essence is to fall into what Buddhism calls attachment to rules.

Az alkotmány mérsékelt zsarnokság, országgy?léssel enyhítve, amelynek tagjait vagy megválasztják, vagy nem.

There's no Martin Luther here," he said, "and whether the Vatican pays attention, who knows?" It wouldn't be easy. "We're dealing with a medieval organization, an organization that represented authority to my grandparents and other immigrants. It was an organization that was respected because it educated them, it gave them a place in the New World, it gave them an identity.

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

Mr. Prendick, do as I instructed, or I will have the significant pleasure of shooting you.

Marriage was not only impossible but unnecessary. He had only to say "Come" and she must obey; it was her destiny.

A real man—a financier—was never a tool. He used tools. He created. He led. Clearly

Zen Master Lin Chi once said: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet the Patriarch, kill the Patriarch. For the one who only has devotion, this declaration is terrible; it confuses him completely. But its effect depends on the mentality and capacity of the one who hears. If the man is strong, he truly will have the capacity to liberate himself from all authority, whatever it might be, and to accomplish in himself ultimate truth.

Nobody in media and journalism knows more about 'deep state' than I do.

As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product.

I am not a journalist or an academic.

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

General David Petraeus was so successful at getting on covers of magazines, having journalists fall in love with him, that in fact he was able to use that power to go around the normal chain of command.

I'm not a judge.

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.

If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.

One cannot tell the High Court what to adjudicate. They must judge, and then the legislature must act accordingly.

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

As head of the Karnataka government, it's my responsibility to implement the judgements and directions of the High Court.

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.