Quotes About Authority

The only thing big about a demon is its mouth. Demons

Well, sonny, in my country, gun control means using both hands.

Anyway, I'm getting really intolerant of liars, fools, blowhards, and power freaks.

You can always tell a police state, or a country at war, by how government vehicles move

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws. —John Adams

It's good to be the top cop in a small town.

The word "personnel" may seem superfluous, but Army regulations prohibit brevity and common sense.

They're from the government and they're there to help you.

If you are given the responsibility, you must be given the authority to match the responsibility.

Army lecture on responsibility, authority, and power? If you are given the responsibility, you must be given the authority to match the responsibility.

though it had been called into being, not by God Almighty, but by the Army Corps of Engineers, who liked to put the finishing touches on Creation.

They're from the government, and they're here to help

I always thought that voluntary arms compliance inspections were sort of like a suspected murderer leading me on a guided tour of his house. No, Detective, there's nothing in that closet of any interest. Now, let me show you my patio.

henchmen came to kiss his ring, and where his

useful [and] objective," further proclaiming it "the accepted authority on its controversial topic. . . . The volume is history, not propaganda.

There are some people, be they black or white, who don't want others to rise above them. They want to be the source of all knowledge and share it piecemeal to others less endowed. That is what's wrong with all these carpenters and men who have a certain knowledge. It is the same with rich people.

Machiavelli asks "whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved?" He answers that "one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.

Outlandish ideas stand a better chance of success if they come with royal approval.

You ask professors to study things, but you never put them in charge of anything.

the crisis prompted the issue of emergency paper money: in Britain, £1 and 10s Treasury notes; in the United States, the emergency currency that banks were authorized to issue under the Aldrich-Vreeland Act of 1908.46 Then, as now, the authorities reacted to a liquidity crisis by printing money.

rigid structures of a hierarchical order can disintegrate with astounding rapidity.

La Unión Soviética, a diferencia de anteriores aspirantes a la hegemonía, está animada por una nueva fe fanática, antitética a la nuestra, y busca imponer su autoridad absoluta sobre el resto del mundo.

propinquity to power is perceived to matter, especially in a time of crisis.

striving to be a master of the universe