Quotes About Authority

I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Men in high levels of government seldom surf.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government.

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.

For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.