Quotes About Authority Figures

#1. Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

Cyndi Lauper

#2. 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.

Mark Rippetoe

#3. I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches.

Richard Seymour

#4. Things weren't permanent, things could always fall apart, never get too comfortable, and even those you trust, those you trust as authority figures and role models, are liable to show themselves as illusions.

Michael Hastings

#5. Would you really have ... ?" said Julien.
"Almost certainly," I said. "I have deep-seated problems with authority figures."
"But you are one!"
"I know! I can only assume the universe has a really mean sense of humour.

Simon R. Green

#6. Authority figures always attract trouble

J.K. Rowling

#7. People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Martha Beck

#8. 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.

Yaphet Kotto

#9. There are many ways in which journalists can mislead a reader with science: they can cherry-pick the evidence, or massage the statistics; they can pit hysteria and emotion against cold, bland statements from authority figures.

Ben Goldacre

#10. Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.

Margaret Kennedy

#11. Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say. You can calmly say, 'Can I first call my mom and ask if I have to do this, please?

Mindy Kaling

#12. My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

Sherman Alexie

#13. I was also beginning to learn about social psychology and the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures, which made me think about how malleable our supposedly strict moral codes become in the right conditions. Something that DIVERGENT grapples with.

Veronica Roth

#14. When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.

Hank Azaria

#15. One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

Georges St-Pierre

#16. A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.

Stephen King

#17. Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.

Tucker Max

#18. So to me, what the drugs and addiction are saying is that I deserve to feel good, I'm allowed to take this because look how I was treated as a child. Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.

Bernie Siegel

#19. You should be just as respectful to authority figures and public servants, even if you can now drain them dry. Because your kids are watching you. Also, because it's still illegal to drain authority figures and public servants dry.

Molly Harper

#20. Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

Rupert Everett

#21. I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.

Gia Coppola

#22. The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they often should. I think we still look to authority figures for validation, recognition, permission.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#23. Before people break the law, they need strong families - adult authority figures and the love of the family. When they step over the line, I'm a Tory. I believe in tough responses, in the law coming down on people like a ton of bricks.

David Cameron

#24. Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.

Don Bluth

#25. This was about the time that my opinion of experts, and authority figures in general, began a steady descent that continues to this day.

Scott Adams

#26. That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.

Jimmy Kimmel

#27. If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

Mickey Gilley

#28. Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

Noam Chomsky

#29. That experience of being in the wild in a place where life initially began for all creatures gave me a overwhelming sense of connection.

Jillian Hervey

#30. Terplash, & what difference make! One little white spark of light! Hair woven hands Penelope seaboat smeller

Is Virgin you trying to fathom me Tiresome old sea, aint you sick & tired of all of this merde? this incessant boom boom & sand walk

Jack Kerouac

#31. Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#32. No, no, you have none of you any idea. This is all nonsense, fantasy, it is not like this. Nothing so blood-curdling and becreepered and crude - not so ... so laughable. The truth is quite other, and altogether more terrible.

Susan Hill

#33. A father who doesn't show respect to his wife, a parent who is disrespectful to their child's teacher or to the cashier in the store must come to expect disrespect from his own child as that is what he has learnt is acceptable behavior by the figures in authority in his life.

David Abudram

#34. I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.

Feist

#35. A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

Steve Almond