Quotes About Authority

If you so much as start to bow or anything like that, Dave, I'll beat you up. I swear I will.

Battles are won en route, Shalhassan of Cathal though. A worthy thought: he raised his hand in a certain way, and a moment later Razeil galloped up, uneasy on a horse at speed, and the Supreme Lord of Cathal made him write it down.

A dangerous man." "Most useful men are dangerous.

It was interesting, I suppose it still is, how vicious men can take power and be accepted, supported by those they govern, if they bring with them a measure of peace. If granaries are full and citizens fed. If war doesn't bring starvation

durent se faire expliquer la situation en un langage qu'ils pouvaient comprendre. Il était possible, bien sûr, de simplement leur donner des ordres sans rien expliquer, mais Shirvan régnait depuis longtemps et savait que la plupart des gens sont plus efficaces quand ils saisissent eux-mêmes de quoi il s'agit. Il

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

Consider the big fists breaking your little bones, or consider the vague bureaucrats stumbling, fumbling through Paper.

Istenkém – mondta Bogus?awski –, nagyhatalom lettünk a mellébeszélésben.

További szerencse, bár természetes adottság, hogy ellenzékünknek nincs programja, célja mindössze annyi, mint mindig minden ellenzéknek: benyomni néhány emberét a kormányba.

El discurso populista es por excelencia el del movimiento bueno contra el gobierno malo.

Es el momento culminante de lo que se ha llamado la pax narca: cuando los criminales son más eficaces y confiables que la autoridad en materia de seguridad pública.

México siempre construyó en su cúpula, de distintos modos, la similar versión de un hombre fuerte, encarnación institucional o espuria del poder absoluto, dispensador de bienes y males: padre, árbitro, verdugo

No hay fenómeno de más larga duración en la historia política de México que el intento de suplir con instituciones representativas, democráticas y republicanas el vacío dejado por el derrumbe del imperio español y la desaparición del rey como fuente legítima de autoridad.

Así llegó al mundo el sistema presidencial de partido hegemónico que gobernó México medio siglo, desde 1940, y resolvió sexenio a sexenio, en forma cupular pero efectiva, el problema crónico de la transmisión del poder.

Pero ¿quién decide si las leyes son justas? Nadie, cada quien. Millones de mexicanos se erigen todos los días en jueces de cuáles leyes deben o no obedecer.

Who's running things?

Let the priests tremble, we're going to show them our sexts!

You mean, the people are armed?" Prince Bentrik was incredulous. "Great Satan, aren't yours?" Prince Trask was equally surprised. "Then your democracy's a farce, and the people are only free on sufferance. If their ballots aren't secured by arms, they're worthless.

On Aditya, such would be unthinkable; on Aditya, everybody respects authority. Whether it's respectable or not.

To argue with those who have renounced the use and authority of reason is as futile as to administer medicine to the dead.

Keep a government poor and weak and it's your servant; let it get rich and powerful and it's your master.

We don't let dogs snap at us. And when they do, we don't kick them, we shoot them!

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

The oppressed…have a higher moral right to challenge their oppressors than these have to maintain their rule by force."6