Quotes About Authority

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

Man is either Viceroy or else he is an animal that claims special rights by virtue of its cunning and the devouring efficiency of teeth sharpened by technological instruments... But if he is Viceroy, then all decay and trouble in the created world that surrounds him is in some measure to be laid to his account

As the first baseman posed these well-crafted queries, Collins went looking for a policeman to arrest Cobb for "striking him while he was wearing eyeglasses," then considered an especially heinous offense.

The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money.

The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

They are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them.

I don't wanna take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I'm the king, man. I run the underworld, guy. I decide who does what and where they do it at. What am I gonna run around like some teeny bopper somewhere for someone elses money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards

Time to paint your but white and run with antelope-in English- Stop arguing and do as your told.

They say God made man, but Sam Colt made them equal.

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immeasurable power of our words.

For monarchy to work, one man must be wise. For democracy to work, a majority of the people must be wise. Which is more likely?

All systematic civil disobedience should involve acts that are malum prohibitum: illegal because the state says so, not because they are bad in themselves.

A free society is most threatened not by uses of government that are obviously bad, but by uses of government that seem obviously good.

it is said that roosters think the sun rises because they crow. Politicians are much the same.

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!

Para que haya estabilidad (en la economía), debe haber alguien que la imponga, y solo puede haber un estabilizador a la vez".

In the new media age, everybody is a historian, or a scientist, or a preacher, or a sage. And if everyone is an expert, then nobody is, and the worst thing you can be in a society where everybody is an expert is, well, an actual expert.

When a crime is investigated, the explanation that is adopted is not the one that best accounts for all the circumstances, but the one that best serves the purposes of those carrying out the investigation.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

The People's' historic duty was to become a nameless herd and submit to the absolute control of a small pack of wily and vicious intellectuals.

Fogelson abused us like a stepfather.

The big problem was the typing. When you run up against a policeman at a typewriter, you might as well get a Coke and relax.