Quotes About Authority

Col bastone in mano penso non mi farei più mettere sotto da nessuno. Terrei testa. Questo bastone davvero mi mette allegria. Asseconda la mia vocazione al dispotismo. Quanto mi piace, dire agli altri cosa devono fare. Ci voleva di ammalarsi, per scoprire quanto dare disposizioni sia in fondo più gratificante di una faticosa autosufficienza. Era per moralismo, prima, che m'imponevo di fare tutto da sola. Adesso, malata, posso godermi in segreto un privilegio eticamente sospetto.

the Church is the merciless heart of the State.

Since the days of George III, Americans have resisted authority; Canadians, by and large, have not. And it seems to me that if Canadians from time to time have endured too much authority, you Americans have suffered from too little. If government becomes too strong, it becomes arbitrary; if it becomes too weak it can also become corrupt

prophétique de la grande critique d'auteur et le ronron sacerdotal de la tradition scolaire ? Mais

Every established order tends to make its own entirely arbitrary system seem entirely natural.

When obedience is so impious, Revolt is a necessity.

He who punishes the vanquished fears not the victor.

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

Who is all-powerful should fear everything.

Such subjects are the very strength of kings, And are thus above the law.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.

The worst of all states is the people's state.

Occasionally I get fed up, going to visit a factory, when I am being shown around by the chairman, who clearly hasn't got a clue, and I try to get hold of the factory manager, but I can't because the chairman wants to make sure he's the one in all the photographs.

I sometimes feel like it's my world and everyone is just visiting.

I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.

From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.

Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.

'Vogue' has the power to make and break - whether it's fashion trends, designers, models, and yes, even industry practices.

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.