Richard Dreyfuss Quotes

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Power never takes a back step—only in the face of more power.

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

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

The whole conversation of my work has to do with power and who has it.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

The only thing power respects, is power.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

Power has no limits.

That power which had both the purse and the sword, had the government of the whole country, and might extend its powers to any and to every object.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

Power protects power.

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than an hundred against it

Through obedience learn to command.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.