Quotes About Authority

Senior leaders used to rule, but now they merely react.

in the words of jurist John Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, "the power to tax involves the power to destroy.

As jurist Marshall also noted, "the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

Sinead broke in. "The cops need to know what to do with Evan, Amy. What should I tell them?" "Shoot to kill?" Ian suggested.

Children do not automatically grant us the authority to parent them just because we are adults, or just because we love them or think we know what is good for them or have their best interests at heart.

Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.

There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.

Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage amongst his books. For to you Kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned by the flicking of a finger … LESSONS: Anonymous

In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had to hold themselves together from the bottom up, ultimately.

173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one," wrote Jefferson in 1785 in his Notes on the State of Virginia. "An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."31

A crown is no cure for the headache.

Fire and water are good servants but bad masters.

Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.

Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.

History is Force dressed up.

Also he saw one dog, that would neither conciliate nor obey, finally killed in the struggle for mastery.

We could not strike back, for we were starving; and it is the way of the world that when one man feeds another he is that man's master.

The people of that age were phrase slaves. The abjectness of their servitude is incomprehensible to us. There was a magic in words greater than the conjurer's art. So befuddled and chaotic were their minds that the utterance of a single word could negative the generalizations of a lifetime of serious research and thought. Such a word was the adjective UTOPIAN. The mere utterance of it could damn any scheme, no matter how sanely conceived, of economic amelioration or regeneration.

Again and again, as he looked at each brutal performance, the lesson was driven home to Buck: a man with a club was a lawgiver, a master to be obeyed, though not necessarily conciliated

You are one with a crowd of men who have made what they call a government, who are masters of all the other men, and who eat the food the other men get and would like to eat themselves.

Kelimeyi gördünüz mü, ÅŸahane kelimeyi: Ä°ktidar! Tanr? deÄŸil, zenginlik deÄŸil, iktidar! Bunu al?n ve dilinizde tüy bitinceye kadar tekrar edin: Ä°ktidar!

stand ipecacuanha, and which of them were constitutionally unable to retain that powerful drug.  One who lay dead he ordered to be carried out.  He spoke in the sharp, peremptory manner of a man who would take no nonsense, and the well men who obeyed his orders scowled malignantly.  One muttered deep in his chest as he took the corpse by the feet.  The white man exploded in speech and action.  It cost him a painful effort, but his arm shot out, landing

Adaleti de adaletsizli?i de kendi tanr?lar?n?n elinden almas? gerekiyordu.

Kullar?n?n hayatlar?na ve ölümlerine karar verme gücü tanr?lar?n elindeydi ve tanr?lar, güçlerini k?skançl?kla korurlard?.