Quotes About Authority

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

A question which can be answered without prejudice to the government is not a fit question to ask.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.

The public be damned.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Big Brother is watching you.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned.

The question "Who ought to be boss" is like asking "Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Heaven itself has ordained the right.

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

I am the State.