Quotes About Authority

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

I declare to you, from the bottom of my heart, that no Socialist system can be established without a political police…No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance.

Around Whitehall, a sacking from Churchill was known as the 'awarding of the Order of the Boot.

It is not a question of one General being better than another, but of one General being better than two.

The ugly truth is revealed that fear is the foundation of obedience.

Power, for the sake of lording it over fellow-creatures or adding to personal pomp, is rightly judged base. But power in a national crisis, when a man believes he knows what orders should be given, is a blessing.

No one can read the Burke of Liberty and the Burke of Authority without feeling that here was the same man pursuing the same ends, seeking the same ideals of society and Government, and defending them from assaults, now from one extreme, now from the other. The same danger approached the same man from different directions and in different forms, and the same man turned to face it with incomparable weapons, drawn from the same armoury, used in a different quarter, but for the same purpose.

I have made more bishops than anyone since St. Augustine.

Democracy is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting the rights of other people. Democracy is no harlot to be picked up in the street by a man with a tommy gun. I trust the people, the mass of the people, in almost any country, but I like to make sure that it is the people and not a gang of bandits who think that by violence they can overturn constituted authority

Already Ex-President Roosevelt had brutally proclaimed, 'Our Allies and our enemies and Mr. Wilson himself should all understand that Mr. Wilson has no authority whatever to speak for the American people at this time.

In any quarrel among men, if one side proclaims its complete impotence of will and hand, there are no bounds to the evils that may ensue.

The structure of this army is curious. Every four men had a fifth man as leader; every nine men a tenth; every nineteen men a twentieth, and so on to every thousand; and it was agreed that the penalty for disobedience to the leader of any unit was death. Thus from the ground does freedom raise itself unconquerable.

no es que un general sea mejor que otro, es que un general es mejor que dos generales».

The tail of China is large and will not be wagged.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

I have it from the highest American authorities that it is their wish that their troops should receive direct orders. They say their Army has been framed more on Prussian lines than on the more smooth British lines, and that American commanders expect to receive positive orders, which they will immediately obey.

I think it is desirable that persons concerned with the administration of justice should carefully acquaint themselves with the nature and character of any punishments which they may be authorised to order.

Oy, stil – tiranlar?n aleti!

Nie, Kancie! Twoja Krytyka, cho?by najbardziej Å›cisÅ'a i najgÅ'Ä™bsza, w siódmych potach pisana, nie wystarczy. SiekierÄ™ zÅ'ap! ZÅ'ap, mówiÄ™, siekierÄ™, wpadnij z siekierÄ… i ciach, na prawo i lewo, dzieci i kobiety, mÅ'odzie? i robotników, i w ogóle wszystkich, tak, wszystkich i wszystkich!... TÄ™pienie gÅ'upoty nie mo?e odbywa? siÄ™ tylko na papierze!

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.