Quotes About Authority

If you are anonymous, you are a less capable disrupter.

We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore.

I hate the idea that people should listen to what actors have to say on certain issues more than anyone else. Actors have no more right to be heard than anyone.

I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.

Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.

There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

When you don't have money, you fall under the influence of anybody who has the appearance of having it.

For many years, the only thing I wanted in the world was the approval of Alberto Salazar. I still loved him. Alberto was like a father to me, or even like a god.

It's not that I have anything against school. I just don't approve of the system.

Arabs respect only the language of force.

Who is the architect? I am the architect.

Architecture is politics.

I always listen to my director and never argue with him.

You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

The argument can be made: Maybe you want to trust the government, but you shouldn't because you don't know where things are going to go in the future.

You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.

The police!" he cried; "one may say of it, as Basile said of calumny to Batholo, 'The police, monsieur! you don't know what you despise!' And, after all," he continued, after a pause, "who are they who despise it? Imbeciles, who don't know any better than to insult their protectors. Suppress the police, and you destroy civilization. Do the police ask for the respect of such people?

A quotation in a speech, article, or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

whatever rung of the social ladder they are perched, when any interest, no matter what, draws them from their own line of obedience and induces them to grasp at power. In their eyes, as in those of politicians, all means to an end are justifiable

And what is power without recognition? Nothing.

Je vais vous éclairer, moi, la position dans laquelle vous êtes; mais je vais le faire avec la supériorité d'un homme qui, après avoir examiné les choses d'ici-bas, a vu qu'il n'y avait que deux partis à prendre : ou une stupide obéissance ou la révolte. Je

El genio no dependía más que de sí mismo, era el único juez de los medios de que se valía, porque solo él conocía el fin que se proponía: debía, por tanto, situarse por encima de las leyes, porque estaba llamado a rehacerlas; por otra parte, quien señorea su siglo puede tomarlo todo, arriesgarlo todo, ya que todo le pertenece.

La burocrazia è un gigantesco meccanismo azionato da pigmei".