Quotes About Authority

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.

In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.

All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

Yes, and you should question your government.

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.

In every area of politics, the goal is control.

A full loyalty to the leader merely fits to the dogs, not to the humans!

The public is blaming the city officials, who in turn have to find someone else to blame. It's the nature of the beast. If the police, the politicians, can pass the buck on down the line, they will.

If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that?

General assumptions often lead to erroneous conclusions, but one cannot go far wrong in always assuming that whatever one's government is saying is a lie.

A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics.

One of the (many) problems with government is that they are usually so preoccupied with whether or not they can do something that they fail to consider whether or not they should.

In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It is just as simple as that.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city it might be better to change the locks.

The statesman shears the sheep the politician skins them.

As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them.