Quotes About Authority

Aquí, en este mundo que dejaste atrás, a Dios lo han secuestrado los hombres. Han creado unas religiones disparatadas, que no entiendo cómo han sobrevivido durante siglos y siguen expandiéndose. Son implacables, predican amor, justicia y caridad, y para imponerlas cometen atrocidades. Los señores muy principales que propagan estas religiones juzgan, castigan, fruncen el ceño ante la alegría, el placer, la curiosidad y la imaginación.

According to Rebecca Solnit in her book Men Explain Things to Me

More than forty years ago Bella Abzug, the famous activist and congresswoman from New York, summarized the above in one sentence: "In the twenty-first century women will change the nature of power instead of power changing the nature of women.

It isn't for nothing that our motto is "By Right or by Force," a phrase that has always seemed particularly stupid to me.

My life has consisted of challenging authority, which I was taught as a young girl. Life is only noise between two abysmal silences. Silence before birth, silence after death.

As Hannah Arendt has observed, "Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.

Now the red caps scanned the crowd for whoever might be eyeing them displeasingly. And yet if you turned away, this might also be interpreted as a sign of disrespect. It was hard to know how, or where, to look. No one with eyes, in other words, was safe

When you have the president arguing that there was mass voter fraud in the absence of any evidence whatsoever - I mean, literally zero - what's to stop anyone from saying so-and-so's a so-and-so?

There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It's all a reflection of your relationship with the president. I mean, Kennedy never let Johnson in the office.

The only thing I wanted when I left school was independence. I had been at boarding school for many years. When you're boarding, nothing is your own and your whole day is scheduled. You're told when to sleep, what to eat and when. You have zero independence.

It's a zero sum game: the Court either expands individual rights or expands the government's right to regulate individuals.

I'm one of those guys who believes in next to zero government. They just screw everything up.

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewriter. If you're an umpire, they give you an unseen object and they call it a strike zone, and nobody seems to agree with you no matter what you call.

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.

Our constitutional system is defined by a balance between the public's need for transparency and the government's need to have a zone of secrecy around decision making. Both are important, yet they are mutually exclusive.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Be God or let God.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.