Quotes About Authority

Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged.

When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.

"'Come on, guys, I'm the leader of a whole movie...!' I tell when I want people to fear and respect me. Not wildly effective."

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

The men may be the head of the house, but the women are the neck and they can turn the head any way they want.

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.

We can find loopholes in a lot of things if we want to bend the rules of the church.

My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

Grab whom you must. Do what you want.

All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.

The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.

My mother was an authority on pig sties. This is the worst looking pigsty I have ever seen in my life, and I want it cleaned up right now.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God.

I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.

I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.