Quotes About Authority

Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears, and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.

My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.

Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.

Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.

The only people who attain power are those who crave for it.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

In the Conservative view, you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

We have a tried and tested system of government that, in being so flexible, exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.