Quotes About Authority

You mean you would have me blow up something just because I didn't approve of it? What do you think I am, a vandal? A fascist? A fucking critic?

And did I lose my faith in raffles about the same time and for approximately the same reasons that I quit believing that virgins can have babies; or that if I slay only those people the government encourages me to slay, I'll be allowed to spend all of eternity in some vaguely located puffyland sipping milk and honey with a huzzahing throng of cheery nonthinkers?

So, the scholars are tedious, the experts never see the whole truth of things, still they have their role to play.

It is dullness and not evil that begets totalitarianism.

His first—and worst—mistake was blindly doing what he was told to do. Without questioning their methods or their motives, he allowed politicians to make the decisions that led to his early demise.

into the hands of the final authority, the one person charged with responsibility for signing the contract or issuing the purchase order.

Literacy was power.

Mr Chater, you are a welcome guest at Sidley Park but while you are one, The Castle of Otranto was written by whomsoever I say it was, otherwise what is the point of being a guest or having one?

How would you define the word 'populist'? I think that a populist might claim to unify the will of the people by insulting established politicians who have become increasingly corrupt. Quote Dial M for Murdoch by Tom Watson, Martin Hickman Rupert Murdoch was not running a normal business, but a shadow state … it is still there and Rupert Murdoch is still in charge.

It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.

With relationship comes access, and with intimacy comes influence.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.

Adults do not talk to us—they give us directions. They issue orders without providing information.

schoolteacher didn't take advice from Negroes. The information they offered he called backtalk and developed a variety of corrections (which he recorded in his notebook) to reeducate them.

I like the way the City makes people think they can do what they want and get away with it.

recevoir le pouvoir de dominer autrui est chose difficile ; s'emparer de force de ce pouvoir est chose erronée ; donner ce pouvoir sur soi-même à autrui est chose mauvaise.

There was no point in questioning him. Just as long ago, when they ventured hand in hand into unknown territory, Cee accompanied her big brother silently. As annoyed as she was now at her relapse into doing what others wanted, she nevertheless cooperated. This one time, she told herself. I don't want Frank making decisions for me.

Tolstoy was wrong. Kings are not the slaves of history. History is the slave of kings.

They bowed their heads and listened obediently to Misner's beautifully put words and the tippy-tap steps of women who were nowhere in sight.

Wherever he was—on the porch, at the kitchen table, in the garden, in the living room reading—that's where the power and deference were. He didn't exert power; he assumed it. And it was in part from knowing him that I felt I could understand and create the men in Ruby—their easy assumption of uncontested authority.

Then they had grown. Edging into life from the back door. Becoming. Everybody in the world was in a position to give them orders. White women said, "Do this." White children said, "Give me that." White men said, "Come here.

Autonomy, newness, difference, authority, absolute power: these are the major themes and concerns of American literature, and each one is made possible, shaped, and activated by a complex awareness and use of a constituted Africanism that, deployed as rawness and savagery, provided the staging ground and arena for the elaboration of that quintessential American identity.