Quotes About Authority

You had better have one King than five hundred.

You gotta claim the crown and the people also gotta crown you, too. It's not just about somebody saying they king.

Law is king of all.

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

Every country should have at least one King Farouk.

I'm the king of the anthems.

The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him.

No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.

The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated?

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.

Traditionally, all the kings of Saudi Arabia have been sons of the founder of Saudi Arabia, and they've gone from one son to the next.

I've studied kings, so I'm very aware of the feet of clay of authority.

As a second-time director you don't want to be working with someone who's a star that wants you to get down and kiss their feet.

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.

Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?

I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.

All the kids looked up to my father because he was known to be that dude who knocks people out.

Sometimes you have to make decisions without knowing all that you would like to know That's part of the job.

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.