Quotes About Authority

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

If you don't use your power, you won't have any power." It was like fundraising, where you wanted to ask people for favors, just as a cow had to be milked in order to keep the milk

And shall we say that in some things we are willing to be guided; we think it right to be guided in matters of doctrine, etc.; but in other matters, just as important and necessary for the salvation and preservation of this people, we are not willing? Latter-day Saints, you cannot do it. You cannot get away from this authority and remain Latter-day Saints, for you sever yourselves from the Church of God, because everything you have is based on the recognition of this authority.

By what right does the wolf judge the lion?

Any man who must say, "I am the king" is no true king.

It's hard to put a leash on a dog once you've put a crown on its head.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. . . . A very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Laws should be made of iron, not pudding.

Some day you'll sit on the throne and the truth will be what you make it.

The next time you raise a hand to me will be the last time you have hands!

A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

The title was but a courtesy due him as a council member; Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderweb, the master of none but his whisperers.

Only now and then had the scholar also become the ruler—Marcus Aurelius, Thomas More, Woodrow Wilson.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.