Quotes About Authority

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

Power doesn't always roar...The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.

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If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place.

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.

CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.

You're working for me cut out the attitude.

The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

Holiday or business, monsieur?" The customs officer looked unconcerned as he stamped Peter's passport, and barely glanced up at him after looking at the picture. He had blue eyes and dark hair and looked younger than his forty-four years. He had fine features, he was tall, and most people would have agreed that he was handsome.

later. He flew in from Chicago with two deputy sheriffs, and walked into the

Firstly, being a local councillor, he was probably a cunt! A real 'book-waving-starch-underpants-wearing-precedent - quoting-sub-section-paragraph-thee-looking-up' sort of arsehole who lived his life by the numbers and reported his neighbours if they so much as tried to put up a bird-table without planning permission.

For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.

When the barons and local elites recognize that political power will be increasingly more centralized and that this process is hard to stop, they will make demands to have a say in how this centralized power is used.

tienen el poder toman decisiones que crean pobreza. No lo hacen bien, no porque se equivoquen o por su ignorancia, sino a propósito.

absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Thomas Hobbes saw things in the 1640s, as the English Civil War was raging, when he argued that people should "submit their Wills" to an all-powerful state, a Leviathan, which would then provide security and prosperity.

will refer to political institutions that are sufficiently centralized and pluralistic as inclusive political institutions. When either of these conditions fails, we will refer to the institutions as extractive political institutions.

what rules society ends up with is determined by politics: who has power and how this power can be exercised.

But in many other cases, just the opposite takes place, and the process of political centralization also ushers in an era of greater absolutism.

the rulers were, in serious senses, whether willingly or unwillingly, the prisoners of their own rhetoric; they played games of power according to rules which suited them, but they could not break those rules or the whole game would be thrown away. Throwing

the iron law of oligarchy.