Quotes About Authority

In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters.

the federal government needs to be scaled back to a size where he can personally stomp it to death with steel-toed boots.

The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If their employees came home at day's end with interesting stories to tell, it meant that something had gone wrong: a blackout, a strike, a spree killing. The Powers That Be would not suffer others to be in stories of their own unless they were fake stories that had been made up to motivate them.

They made data a controlled substance.

He was tempted to park the SUV illegally, since, according to his calculations, the authorities were not likely to catch up with him and demand payment of the parking ticket before the end of the world, but it seemed that most of the people of Seattle were still obeying the rules and so he did likewise.

We could end up in prison married to the guy with the most cigarettes.

The Police Minister's toilet chided him

Gold is gold everywhere, fungible and indifferent. But when a disk of gold is stamped by a coiner with certain pompous words and the picture of a King, it takes on added value -- seigneurage. It has that value only in that people believe that it does -- it is a shared phant'sy.

Don Donald was clearly accustomed to addressing people whose only way of responding was to nod worshipfully and take notes.

I guessed that by pretending to be the leader I could make a few things go my way, at least for a little while, until they figured out I was faking it.

So through no rational process whatsoever I was the leader, And I had no idea what I was going to say.

That sounds like bulshytt!

As your demeanor has been nonaggressive and you carry no visible weapons, we are not authorized to employ heroic measures to ensure your cooperation," the first MetaCop says. "You stay cool and we'll stay cool," the second MetaCop says.

Randy is a member in good standing of American society again, having cheerfully endured the process of being ritually goosed by the Government. He feels a strong impulse to drive straight to the nearest gun store and spend about ten thousand dollars. Not that he wants to hurt anyone; it's just that any kind of government authority gives him the creeps now.

Just because the Panjandrums know how to run cheeseburg stands, they think they know how to run a Convox.

Yur heaved a sigh, then continued in a more moderate tone: "Never mind. I see it now. It's some kind of Purpose thing. Above my pay grade. You should have just told me." He drew himself up and saluted. "What are my orders, sir?