Quotes About Authority

licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.

You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree

They'll pull the trigger and tell the hammer to hurry.

Now he was as lost as the rest of us, and didn't know his way out of the particular patch of woods and that homestead any more than a bird knows his way out of a privy with the door closed, but he was the leader, and he had found what he wanted.

It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.

People, my god; people. Nature gave them tongues, technology gave them loudspeakers, and they all believe that because they can use both, whatever they say is important.

Dr. Martinez: I take it you don't want me to call your parent? Max: Uh, no. Hello, lab? May I speak to the test tube please?

Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand?

Angel raised her hand. Excuse me. What does LTC stand for? She blinked innocently. Loving Tender Care?Gazzy suggested.If our instructor had had lasers for eyes, he would have sliced Gazzy in half. Lieutenant colonel, he sputtered.

You're gonna fall now,' I heard Angel say in a normal voice. I swung my head to see gravely watching an Eraser who looked confused, paralyzed. Angel shifted her gaze to the water below. Fear entered the Eraser's eyes, and his wings folded. He dropped like a rock. You're getting scary, you know that?'I said to Angel, not really kidding. I mean, making an Eraser drop right out of the sky just by telling him to - jeez.

guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority. well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

Plus her mom was so awesome. She was strict about some things—don't leave your socks lying around—but so not strict about other things, like calling the cops about my bullet wound.

Why aren't crazy people content to take over, like, one town? It always has to be the whole word. They can't just control maybe twenty people. The have to control everyone. The can't just be stinking rich. The can't just do genetic experiments on a couple unlucky few. They have to put something in the water. In the air. To get everyone. I was tired of all of it.

Part 5 The Voice- Make that my voice

The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option

Glaring at the Gasman, ter Borcht said, "Your time is coming to an end, you pathetic failure of an experiment. Vhat you say now is how you vill be remembered." Gazzy's blue eyes flashed. "Then you can remember me telling you to kiss my-" "Enough!" ter Borcht said.

People always talk about how great it is to get older. All I saw were more rules and more adults telling me what I could and couldn't do, in the name of what's good for me. Yeah, well, asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up.

This is not a democracy, I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. It's a Maxocracy.

A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall.

Don't drive like you own the road; drive like you own the car.