Quotes About Authority

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Show me the man and I'll show you the law.

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

A vague uneasiness; the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.

Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.

Law is a bottomless pit.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is a ass, a idiot."

Be you never so high, the law is above you.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

The laws sometimes sleep, but never die.

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Cae-

Where law ends, there tyranny begins.

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.