Quotes About Authority

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart.

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.

Today's art has been cancelled due to police activity.

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.

I think that street art is illegal and it has to stay illegal.

I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.

Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.

Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It's OK to be the boss

Interviewing is not a democratic art.

If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.