Quotes About Authority

When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.

If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not.

And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.

You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.

The government doesn't want you to use YOUR drugs, they want you to use THEIR drugs.

There are only two questions about government. How much do you want? How much can you stand?

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative.

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men-white male corporate society. So why wouldnt a woman want to rebel against that?

If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don't want to listen to me, then drop me as your leader

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

As a general matter, if the president wants to withdraw from a treaty, he simply gets to do that. And that's part of the powers of the office.

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.

[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves.