Quotes About Authority

These men were not selected by a jury of fellow artists, but appointed by the sovereign and electing choice of God.

When I lifted up the Bible as my ultimate authority, I made my leather-bound, gold-engraved Bible into a paper calf.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

Overthrow the bureaucracy, and return to a system based on human responsibility.

Automatic law corrodes our freedom

Mindless rules, not accountable officials, are the enemy of freedom.

Um bom polícia continua a ser um bom polícia, mesmo que seja um sacana nazi.

O homem era advogado e, por vezes, quando nos armamos em espertos com advogados, eles chamam-lhe desrespeito e metem-nos na cadeia.

It seems to me that lawyers can justify almost anything to themselves as long as it's legal. But you can make anything legal when you put a gun to parliament's head.

If there's one thing more ridiculous than the idea of a policeman who's thinking, it's a policeman saying he expects something important to come of it.

The interesting thing about the rich is that they like being told where to get off. They confuse it with honesty

He that would govern others, first should beThe master of himself.

He that would govern others first should be master of himself.

staff are terrified of them, and not without reason.

have fired more people than any comparable employer unit in the world. They make Lord Beaverbrook look like Jesus.

dispersal of power to different decision-making bodies (Chapter 7). â–  the results and consequences

Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell in the seventeenth

has amounted at times to a crisis of confidence in the police, especially

Historically, these have included making treaties, the appointment and dismissal of ministers, dispensing

one. It also may be characterized as a "multiple-check" system. A proposal emanating from one branch of government can be checked—that is, negated—by another. A

Queen Victoria's reign (1837–1901) marked the transition from a monarch

Power to determine the direction of policy is not confined to the blunt weapon of appointment and dismissal. It

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