Quotes About Authority

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.

They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

for me obedience to another is the decay of self

What were doctors, lawyers, scientists? They were just men who allowed themselves to be deprived of their freedom to think and act as individuals.

And if you decide to kill somebody, make it anybody and not somebody: some men are made of more special, precious parts: do not kill if you will a president or a King or a man behind a desk - these have heavenly longitudes enlightened attitudes. If you decide, take us who stand and smoke and glower; we are rusty with sadness and feverish with climbing broken ladders

All that shit they were fed about democracy and opportunity was just to keep them from burning down the palace.

Somebody was always controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

a bad trip? this whole country, this whole world is on a bad trip, friend. but they'll arrest you for swallowing a tablet.

stood a supervisor, another Stone, and he had this look on his face—they must practice it in front of mirrors, all the supervisors had this look on their faces—they looked at you as if you were a hunk of human shit.

when confronted with dutiful policemen or women in rancor I have nothing to say to them for if I truly began it would end in somebody's death: theirs or mine so I let them have their little victories which they need far more than I do.

it's when you're on the row that you notice that everything is owned and that there are locks on everything.

Education was the new god, and educated men the new plantation masters.

Nothing that is against the law ever ceases to exist.

My father didn't like people. He didn't like me. "Children should be seen and not heard," he told me.

Firsat bulup ona bir insanin polis uniformasini uzerine gecirdigi andan itibaren mevcut duzenin maasli bekcisi oldugunu anlatamazsin.Polisin isi degisimi engellemektir. Gidisattan hosnutsaniz butun polisler iyidir,degilseniz kotudur.

you never get a chance to explain to him that when a man puts that uniform on that he is the paid protector of things of the present time. he is here to see that things stay the way they are. if you like the way things are, then all cops are good cops. if you don't like the way things are, then all cops are bad cops.

I wasn't interested in world history, only my own. What crap. Your parents controlled your growing-up period, they pissed all over you. Then when you got ready to go out on your own, the others wanted to stick you into a uniform so you could get your ass shot off.

when a man puts that uniform on that he is the paid protector of things of the present time. he is here to see that things stay the way they are. if you like the way things are, then all cops are good cops. if you don't like the way things are, then all cops are bad cops.

Both the clergy and Louis XIV, the king whom Baron d'Arce was goading, tried to suppress these dangerous ideas by instructing French officials to force a French education upon the Indians, complete with lessons in deferring to their social betters. The attempts, Jaenen reported, were ' everywhere unsuccessful.

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Because he controlled food negotiations with Powhatan, the colony's men of consequence swallowed their displeasure.