Quotes About Authority

While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.

In the end this obsession for conformity leads to fascism.

This case needs a Solomon, unfortunately we got Roy Bean.

I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to heaven You find no policeman there

El que paga manda. Se lo aprendí tan bien a mi papá que hasta la fecha no he dejado de aplicarlo. Si entiendes eso, todo se hace más fácil. No es cosa de dinero, sino de inversión. El que más invierte tiene la palabra.

Sólo los hombres fuertes saben obedecer las órdenes de una mujer.

Most of all I vowed that my followers would learn more from my own example than from any legal code or set of regulations. As important to the people as written laws may be, the leader serves as a living law. He not only acts as a competent guide but also functions as a wise judge, detecting and punishing those who fail to serve the people with justice and honesty.

today when I think of the treacherous cunning of many men who wear crowns—creatures like the king of Assyria—I can only think of how dishonorable it would be to let them remain in power." I

and in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law. And is

Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion  

And how would you call what a small number of citizens should ordain, in states where the people is not the master, but all is ordered by the advice of a few persons, who possess the sovereignty? I would call whatever they ordain a law; for laws are nothing else but the ordinances of sovereigns. If

If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go! -- do you think they would shout and dance for joy? They wouldn't. Birds are not free. The people you've just evicted would sputter, With what right do you throw us out? This is our home. We own it. We have lived here for years. We're calling the police, you scoundrel.

My agency was pure and miraculous. It conferred power upon me.

bowdlerized, censored, suppressed and maybe even burned by the public hangman. But people who believe in this diabolical power of words and/or ideas and/or images

To argue that because Old Testament law does not prescribe explicit penalties related to infringement of its economic legislation, therefore modern civil authorities are excluded from any form of intervention in the economic marketplace betrays both the inadequacy of theonomism's preoccupation with penalties and also, in my view, its ideological bias towards unfettered, free-market economic capitalism.

Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder.

The Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) understood what he was seeing at the time of a lunar eclipse: 'The church says the earth is flat, but I know it is round for I have seen its shadow on the moon and I have more faith in a shadow than the church.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day? - Edward II, 5.1

where you have more experts, you create more bystanders. Professionals

Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.

Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.