Quotes About Authority

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves.

Information has more power than any atom bomb.

Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They're bedfellows."-General John JamesCommandant, USMCDecember 11th, 2032

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity

If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.

A strong new presence in poetry . . . Kei Miller's is a voice we will hear much more of, for it speaks and sings with rare confidence and authority.

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

a politician is an arse uponwhich everyone has sat except a man

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all

The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.