Quotes About Authority

Respect!'' cried Mother's voice. ''Children owe respect to their parents! We don't have to earn it!

Those who rule us have brilliantly applied the maxim that the best defense against truth is the unswerving repetition of lies.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

I have it on indisputable authority that in Scarsdale, during a school celebration of Christmas, one of the children sang the carol as "God rest ye, Jerry Mandelbaum.

But what is the core of the political? Men killing men on the largest scale in broad daylight and with the greatest serenity.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Kings are the slaves of history.

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

Necesito el gerente.

I will see every one of you in detention, first thing after school on Friday

speak with the man in charge," he said, a smile spreading across his face. Billy popped his head inside. The mayor, Francis Delaney, was sitting upright against the bed, a sheet wrapped around

Right now, who is really more powerful? Google or the NSA?

After all, you have grown accustomed to having an authority in your life to define reality, and without that external direction you feel confused and lost.

Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to the people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves

Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne. Yet that scaffold sways the future.

When he undressed at night he was like a diplomat or a judge. A white body, gentle and powerless, emerged from his clothes, his position in the world lay tumbled on the floor, fallen from his ankles...

You stupid chick ... nun ... whatever. I'm a tenth-degree black belt in Korean Karate!"  "But you don't have the power of God, you uncircumcised philistine!

Is his benevolent art meant to distract us from Prospero's absolutist exercise of authority over his subjects?

Every child knows that every grown female person in the world has authority to wash children and to give them food; that is what grown people were made for

Their behavior indicated that the stigma of being on welfare, which had been powerful throughout American history—even in the Depression—had lost some of its force. So had the tendency of poor people to defer to people in authority. These were among the most profound and lasting developments of the 1960s.90

The John Birch Society, mobilizing in 1958, focused considerable resources on impeaching Warren and on curbing the authority of the Court.