Quotes About Authority

No law was ever made by the people; they are made for the people

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

La palabra es mi dominio sobre el mundo

we have built a reward structure to praise those students who can sit in classrooms better than anyone else. We let them run our planet. However,

The end is just another beginning when a Mother is in charge of the world.

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

The primary function for writing as a means of communication is to facilitate the enslavement of other human beings

The mistake a lot of politicians make is forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Un ignorante con poder es una fatalidad.

History's authority over us is not broken by maintaining a silence about its continued effects.

Sin embargo, es el cientificismo y no la ciencia propiamente dicha el que desestima cualquier autoridad distinta a la suya.

For it was authority that turned men suspicious and stern-faced. Authority and responsibility which made them not themselves, but a sort of corporate body that tried to think as a corporate body rather than a person.

The one thing the English can't stand is someone getting above themselves.

The world can only be limitless and boundless if you let it control yourself and rule over you.

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

If you save your breath, I feel like a man you can manage.

Nothing wrong with shooting...as long as the right people get shot.

When power is up for grabs," Pitt said, "the first casualty is often liberty.

The CCP seemed to be following a dictum attributed to Stalin: 'Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

When absolute power is on offer, talent fights to get in.

One parent is enough to spoil you but discipline takes two. I got too much of what I wanted and not enough of what I needed.

Tyrants conduct monologues above a million solitudes. —ALBERT CAMUS, THE REBEL