Quotes About Authority

The departments are shit; decrees are shit.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Trust is good, control is better.

To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamentary-constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.

I can't listen to music because it makes me want to say sweet, silly things, and pat people on the head… but you have to beat people's heads, beat them mercilessly! … What a devilishly difficult job I have.

All and sundry manifestations of police tyranny and autocratic outrage, in addition to the evils connected with the economic struggle, are equally "widely applicable" as a means of "drawing in" the masses.

Engels elucidates the concept of the "power" which is called the state, a power which arose from society but places itself above it and alienates itself more and more from it. What does this power mainly consist of? It consists of special bodies of armed men having prisons, etc., at their command.

In reality the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is carried on by the departments, chancelleries and General Staffs. Parliament itself is given up to talk for the special purpose of fooling the 'common people.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

Russia's big owo

To forgive the terrorists is up to God, but to send them there is up to me.

To forgive the terrorists is up to god but to send them to him is up to me.

The Comrade Wolf knows whom to eat, as the saying goes. It knows whom to eat and is not about to listen to anyone, it seems.

If he gave an assignment, he didn't really care how it was done or who did it or what problems they had. It just had to get done, and that was that.

Little girl whom do you love more, mama or papa? -Stalin!

Les bolcheviks, une fois consolidé et légalisé leur pouvoir, en tant que socialistes étatistes qui croient en la direction centralisée et autoritaire, commenceront à diriger la vie du pays et du peuple du sommet. […] Les bolcheviks développeront une autorité politique et un appareil d'État qui écraseront toute opposition avec une poigne de fer. »

The higher the rank, the droller the prank.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.