Quotes About Authority

The thought of a king who can determine not only what life his people lead but even the nature of the God they worship makes me shiver.

The valence of violence around gender and generational authority becomes especially charged when avenues for asserting hierarchy and achievement are limited by poverty, chronic drug and alcohol use, and social marginalization—all of which shape lumpen reality at the everyday level in the United States in the early twenty-first century.

The queen is right. The queen is always right.

Mind if we check the other rooms to make sure?" an officer asked Dad. "Please do," said Father. "If there's a body lying around up here, I want to know about it.

Mother went back inside when the police had gone, but Dad did not. Instead he walked to the edge of the porch, cupped his hands over his mouth, and bellowed like a bull moose. "Wallace, Joshua, and Joseph! Get in here! Now !" "You want to spend the night in the woods?" Wally whispered to his brothers. "He'd just come looking for us," said Josh.

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.

La giustizia è un robot senza cuore nè intelligenza: colpisce a seconda della carica che ha avuto. E la carica è costituita dalle prove.

L'adulte ne croit pas au Père Noël. Il vote.

Your teacher didn't lie to you. A centaur never lies. He merely edited his information, on orders from the King, so as not to force on the impressionable minds of children things their parents did not want them to hear. Education has ever been thus.

He who conquers the streets conquers the masses; and he who conquers the masses conquers the state.

Yo declaro que la justicia no es otra cosa que la conveniencia del más fuerte.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.

Appearance tyrannizes over truth.

And then, at this stage, every dictator comes up with the notorious and typical demand: he asks the people for bodyguards to protect him, the people's champion.

Do you mean that the tyrant will dare to use violence against the people who fathered him, and raise his hand against them if they oppose him? So the tyrant is a parricide, and little comfort to his old parent.

There will be no end to the troubles of the state or indeed of humanity until philosophers become kings or until those we now call kings really and truly become philosophers.

He who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself.

those who govern ought not to be lovers of the task? For, if they are, there will be rival lovers, and they will fight.

I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of [c] the stronger.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

It is no good for rulers if the people they rule cherish ambitions for themselves or form strong bonds of friendship with one another.

For it is likely that if a city of good men came to be, there would be a fight over not ruling, just as there is now over ruling; and there it would become manifest that a true ruler really does not naturally consider his own advantage but rather that of the one who is ruled.