Quotes About Authority

God's Word is so powerful. It's sharper than a two-edged sword. (Heb. 4:12.) With the baptism of the Holy Spirit, you have God's power and God's Word working in you.

But Elsie thought she could find it. She had heard that policemen, when politely addressed, or thumbscrewed by an investigation committee, will give up information and addresses.

a silent concave of puppet buffoons neither eagles nor jaguars buzzard lawyers locuses wings of ink sawing mindibles ventriloquist coyotes peddlers of shadows beneficent satraps the cacomistle thief of hens the monument to the Rattle and its snake the altar to the mauser and the machete the mausoleum of the epauletted cayman rhetoric sculpted in phrases of cement

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.

law grinds the poor, rich men rule the law

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.

The war had deprived people of free will. They must do what they were told.

If the lycée teachers studying this book in their class are now beginning to get nervous, they can advise the students to skip this page.

T?pk? muhteÅŸem bir Despot gibi DoÄŸu, güce ve göz kamaÅŸt?ran ?????yla insanlar? yere çalr, insan orada daha yürümeyi öÄŸrenmeden diz çökmek, konuÅŸmay? öÄŸrenmeden dua etmek zorunda kal?r.

Belediye binas?n?n ikinci kat?ndaki Rizeli, kuyruktaki vatandaÅŸlar? azarlayan önemli ve meÅŸgul bir adamd?.

VatandaÅŸlar?m?z?n ÅžAHSÄ° görüÅŸleriyle RESMÄ° görüÅŸleri aras?ndaki FARKIN DERÄ°NL???, DEVLETÄ°MÄ°ZÄ°N GÜCÜ'nün kan?t?d?r (Celal Salik).

I was reminded of a horrifying aphorism my father had taught me, expressing the ambivalence of officials toward gifted artists and writers who criticize their regimes: "Poets must first be hanged, then mourned at the gallows.

Cumhuriyet kimlerin elinde görüyorsun. Ä°smet PaÅŸa bu adama deÄŸil bakanl?k, ta??s?n diye çantas?n? bile vermez!..

Llegué a la conclusión de que el lugar al que llamaban escuela en realidad no respondía a las preguntas verdaderamente importantes, sino que simplemente ayudaba a que las asumiéramos como parte integrante de la realidad de la vida, Por eso, hasta los años de instituto, tuve buen cuidado en levantar el dedo y permanecer en el lado cómo y tranquilo de la línea

in the twenty-first century, with the era of traditional empires and colonies long since behind us, the word "nationalist" has become a label almost always employed to lend prestige to the behavior of people who tend to agree with everything their government says, have no other aim but to curry favor with those in power, and lack the courage to stand up to authority.

I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God. Then who are you? The personnel officer who hired God.

I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy.

because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

The have influence, but no power. In my experience, influence is power.

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.