Quotes About Authority

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.

Rule Number Three, and Four and Five and about a dozen more: you do not go with the flow in this job. You make the flow go with you.

Today Henry would be running a banana republic with serious border issues and a dodgy nuclear-weapons program.

once the ruler is no longer willing to be the sacrifice for his people, he becomes not a leader but a leech,

Frightened people are obedient–not just physically, but intellectually and emotionally.

Everyone was talking about talking, and the most moral person was the one who yelled at the most other people for doing the talking all wrong.

Every time you say no to your big brother, God kills a kitten. Come on.

Every kid has a right to some rebellion. I'd been angelic all through school. It evens out.

We're ruled by venal little usurpers, all of us, and they make meaninglessness everywhere they go.

A guard is as much a prisoner as those he keeps from freedom.

How dare they discuss her as though she were a wayward child in need of a good strapping!

Most people don't care who's in charge as long as someone is.

Sara would call one of those cops on horses a motherfucker. The cop would avert his eyes. Sara would ask directions for the wild wild west.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

Happily, as you are not my husband, I do not have to give your opinion more attention than I choose," I snapped. "Good day, Mr. Hargreaves.

The girl wondered: These policemen... didn't they have families, too? Didn't they have children? Children they went home to? How could they treat children this way? Were they told to do so, or did they act this way naturally? Were they in fact machines, not human beings? She looked closely at them. They seemed of flesh and bone. They were men. She couldn't understand.

When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.

Es para imponer el despotismo, todas las guerras se han hecho para eso.

Aumentando los impuestos es como un gobierno cruel y monstruoso puede monopolizar todo el poder; porque entonces puede establecer un sistema de premios y castigos: premios para los que permiten la tiranía y castigos para lo que se le opongan.

It is related," said the grandfather, "that a lion, once he has tasted the blood and the flesh of a man, will eat no other meat. Our government has tasted the blood and the flesh of the people; it has tasted, suddenly, unlimited power.

when priests abdicate to civil authority and to tyrants they have abandoned God and man.

Men are no different from your automata; slip a bloke a piece of paper with the proper figures on it, and he'll do your bidding.

On the one side are the truths of fact, on the other the truth of the writer's feeling, and where the two coincide cannot be decided by any outside authority in advance.