Quotes About Authority

Clergymen, judges, statesmen--the wisest, calmest, holiest persons of their day--stood in the inner circle round about the gallows, loudest to applaud the work of blood, latest to confess themselves miserably deceived.

Many people are seeking, at this very moment, to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle; imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the softness and snugness of an eider-down pillow. But she has no great tenderness, even in her best of moods, and, sooner or later, --oftener sooner than late,-- is apt to fling off her nestlings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a rankling wound from her barbed arrows.

Societatea are un caracter despotic; e în stare s? refuze cuiva cea mai elementar? dreptate cât timp este cerut? cu prea mare îndârjire, ca un drept; dar aproape la fel de des acord? mai mult decât dreptate - aÈ™a cum le place despoÈ›ilor - când se face apel la generozitatea ei.

Thus it was with the men of rank, on whom their eminent position imposed the guardianship of the public morals.

seize the public by the button

On Andrew Jackson: His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual might be, it served only to make him a sharper tool.

El público es caprichoso; es capaz de negar la justicia común cuando se le exige violentamente como un derecho, lo es también de conceder más allá de lo justo cuando el requerimiento se verifica como a los déspotas les gusta, entregándose por completo al amo.

With your pardon, sir," replied Dr. Clarke, a physician and a famous champion of the popular party, "whatever the heralds may pretend, a dead beggar must have precedence of a living queen. King Death confers high privileges.

There is no greater bugbear than a strong-willed relative, in the circle of his own connections.

When an enlisted man sees his commanding officer lose his head entirely…," Private Taylor wrote, "it would…demoralize anyone taught to breathe, almost, at the word of command.

And, when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for 'freedom', be sure to go running away from him just as fast as you can, for you can be damned certain he's fighting for the freedom to tell you what to do.

If Polity forces were to turn up here, then your king would have to respond, by which time the turd trajectory would be fanwards.

he had become the patriarch of horseflesh.

we must always be vigilant, because power comes infected with the only disease left to us: the virus called human nature.

Monster only had the power that you gave them

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close they came to toppling the government. They didn't want kids to know how much power they really had.

You'll find in life, Caden, that many decisions are made by morons in high places.

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

That's exactly what the scythedom is: high school with murder.

the captain is supposed to go down with the ship . unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat

How frustrating it is to have so much power, yet be so impotent to wield it when it counts.

Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.

Did Constantine actually just say that? Hell would be freezing over if the Thunderhead weren't controlling its weather.