Quotes About Authority

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What's conquered by the sword depends on the sword to stay conquered.

In the land of the blind the third eyed man is king

These days law thinks it's about nothin' but laws. Law don't remember it was once handed down from somewhere, that it once meant not just no, but was a way to live and a reason to live that way. Law now thinks nobody but politicians made it or remake it, so maybe it ain't a surprise some people don't care anymore about law, and even some lawmen don't understand the real reason for law.

Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

Archie says -Science- the same way he says -Modern-, as if someone has lent him the words and made him swear not to break them.

The fear was respect, the respect, fear. If you didn't have the fear you had nothing.

The thing I feared was no longer my parents' authority over me but that they might haul out into the open their own intimate fears, their melancholy and regrets.

The thing I feared was no longer my parents' authority over me but that they might haul out into the open their own intimate fears, their melancholy and regrets.

There's always somebody who wants to be the Big Man, and take everything for themselves, and tell everybody how to think and what to do. When, actually, it's he who is weak. But if the Big Men see that you see that they are weak they have no choice but to destroy you. That is the real tragedy.

Disciplinarians thrive under chaos!

Shut off your wind, Jack! And you, too, Blaze! I didn't want you fellows to come here. But as you would come, you've got to shut up. This is my business.

It was difficult to define an outlaw in a country where there was no law.

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

Where is de house where de mouse is de leader?

You got de keys to de kingdom.

The town had a basketful of feelings good and bad about Joe's positions and possessions, but none had the temerity to challenge him. They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.

He had a bow-down command in his face, and every step he took made the thing more tangible.

Ah'm uh man even if Ah is de Mayor. But de mayor's wife is somethin' different again.

It's bad to have some power, but not enough.

He figures that it makes a big man out of him to be passing and passing laws and rules. He thinks that makes him look more like a king. Long time ago he done passed all the laws that could do anybody good. So now he sits up and studies up laws to do hurt and harm, and we're the only folks in Egypt he got the nerve to put 'em on. He aims to keep us down so he'll always have somebody to wipe his feet on. He brags that him and the Egyptian nation is eating high on the hog now.