Quotes About Authority

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract.

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

The growing role of enterprise social media, plus the growing budgets and authority of CMOs entrusted with choosing the best platforms, translates into an exciting future for apps that harness social potential for large companies.

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.

I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.

I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.

'Socialize' means we turn more of our personal powers over to Big Brother, not free enterprise.

Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.

The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.

We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.

A lot of people relate leadership to formalities. They believe that leadership is about being professional and strong and always right and being a booming voice. I just don't buy that. I think that leadership is a soft skill; it's a people skill.

The justice system is a foundation of our existence as a democratic society. I will not be the one to soften its bite. But I will also not allow it to eat away at the legal authority of the legislative and executive branches. We must find the formula for the right balance between the branches.

My dad is the softer one and my mum is the disciplinarian, the one who calls the shots.

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

If I became president now I would immediately pass a law that makes every citizen a policeman or a soldier.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.