Authority Figures Quotes

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

Whenever anybody is pursuing power, he's got to be funny.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

The gatekeepers don't control the gates, and the powers that be aren't as powerful.

Put not your trust and confidence in kings and princes.

The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to decline with increasing industrialization and education. The US, however, is off the chart, ranking near devastated peasant societies. About 1/2 the population believe the world was created a few thousand years ago: the justification for the belief is that that is what they were ordered to believe by authority figures to whom they were taught one must subordinate oneself. And on, and on.

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

Respect authority while questioning it.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market.

Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

Obey God, obey his Prophet, and obey those in authority over you.

I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room.

Dawn Steel was the person who told me I could never wear shoes like this! She and Nora Ephron told me 'you can't wear those crappy shoes, nobody would ever take you seriously'. I've been wearing them ever since then!

Remember, only a policeman is allowed to express himself on an expressway.

I don't like people who take drugs... customs men for example.

There's some criminals that wear badges. Guess what? There's some criminals that work in the media. There's some criminals that are football coaches. There's some criminals that are politicians. There are criminals that work in churches.

Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.

I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.