Quotes About Authority

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.

Pilate listened to the crowd. What sailor listens to the swell ? (Pilate écouta la foule. - Quel marin écoute la houle ?)

Satan plagiarized by dictator, and he does not even have copyright! (Satan plagié par dictateur, - Et il n'a même pas de droits d'auteur!)

Satan plagiarized by dictator, and he doesn't even have copyright! (Satan plagié par dictateur, - Et il n'a même pas de droits d'auteur!)

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble… "the law is a ass, a idiot."

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me.

The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.

You've got the key of the street.

The law is a ass, Sir!

There was a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken in most instances such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible. Everybody may sometimes be right; "but that's no rule," as the ghost of Giles Scroggins says in the ballad.