Quotes About Authority

The police moved us on at about six a.m. This is the hour when, for some reason, one begins to be a menace to law and order.

I believe in you so much that you must do what I want.

His sudden decision not to see her any more was utterly incomprehensible to the girl, it was a death sentence from a hidden authority for an unknown crime. Nothing had changed, and then there was suddenly this.

Labour in power?

Over the bed hung the picture of her beloved, the Polish Rider. He was looking, with his authoritative pensive mouth and his calm wide-apart eyes, past Moy, over her left shoulder and away into some vast distance. He was a knight upon a quest. He was brave, innocent, chaste, good.

Why did I join the force? I repeat, - Oh I'd have to say that it was due to police oppression. I'd witnessed it within my own community and decided that it was something I wanted to be part of, I smile.

Rents bir keresinde, polisin ve yarg?çlar?n görev duygusunu tetiklemek için esmer bi tenden daha iyisi yoktur, demiÅŸti; çok doÄŸru.

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don't think we speak the truth to power for power's ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future generations, who would seek to live in a world free from the malign and self-serving influence of those who wield it.

Le regole son quelle.

People were deferential to power. You just had to make the right noises.

I do like to teach. Sitting in my great chair at school, I used to consider myself as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth...To fire a newborn soul with ardor for learning! At that time I thought the world could afford no greater pleasure.' - Those Who Love, p. 177

Možeš da kažeš šta ti je volja, sve dok ne osporavaš moju re?.

Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

And so it happened, that when others bent their knee, he refused and added loudly that his ancestors in their time bowed no knee to any stinking mayor. And in his ancestors' time the mayor was elected anyhow, and kicked out at will, and that the only people that inherited anything by right of birth were the congenital idiots.

They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.

It amounts to a diseased attitude—a conditioned reflex that shunts aside the independence of your minds whenever it is a question of opposing authority.

It isn't just you. It's the whole Galaxy. Pirenne heard Lord Dorwin's idea of scientific research. Lord Dorwin thought the way to be a good archaeologist was to read all the books on the subject—written by men who were dead for centuries. He thought that the way to solve archaeological puzzles was to weigh the opposing authorities. And Pirenne listened and made no objections. Don't you see that there's something wrong with that?

There is nothing your knife handlers can do in the way of rioting and demonstrating that will have any permanent effect as long as, in the extremity, there is an army equipped with kinetic, chemical, and neurological weapons that is willing to use them against your people. You can get all the downtrodden and even all the respectables on your side, but you must somehow win over the security forces and the Imperial army or at least seriously weaken their loyalty to the rulers.

We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.

Voy gülümsedi. Ä°ÅŸte bu fena. Ne zaman birisi belirli bir alanda tam bilgi sahibi olmad???n? belirterek konuya girse, arkas?ndan o konuda çok aç?k bir biçimde fikrini belirtecek demektir.

Throughout you have invariably relied on authority or on the past—never on yourselves.

The government doesn't want any system of transmitting information to remain unbroken, unless it's under its own control.