Quotes About Authority

But as usual, the common folk are wiser and more able to discern the truth of things than are the elites who claim to serve them.

Politics was an illusion of service that cloaked the corruption of power.

the darkest desire of humankind—to hold absolute power, to control, to command obedience, to eliminate all voices of disagreement and dissent—had found its full expression.

These are very powerful people.

he's been booted from three expensive private schools.

If the installation is under the auspices of the EPA, the CDC, the NSA, the CIA, or some federal black-op outfit

She distrusts those who prefer power to money

rotten as the minds of those who believe they can learn all that exists to be known and can control anything they wish to control, who believe that it is their right, above the rights of all other men and women, to shape the destinies of their neighbors, cities, nations, and the Earth entire, according to their whims.

In addition to the scientists at Springville, twenty-two hundred Refine employees had answered to him. Now he has authority over no one. He had power, position, respect, twenty Tom Ford suits that he wore with colorful sneakers. All that is gone. He is alone. Only now does he realize that the worst of all miseries to afflict the human heart is loneliness. Lee Shacket has never been good at relationships. He's

he is a wizard at persuading police not to arrest him

Judge Sheila Draper-Cruxton.

You represent them?

twenty, he's caught naked with a fifteen-year-old girl as he's teaching her how to self-inject DMT.

maybe I shouldn't have regarded the ISA as omniscient and omnipresent.

lèse majesté?

Carson didn't believe either man was what he presented himself to be. Frawley looked like a fixer, a slick operator who had friends in all the highest places and knew how to take care of any screwup they committed.

To Carson, Hayden Eckman said, "The AG called me himself, a few hours ago. He made a persuasive argument.

He is enchanted by the power of the law and by the infinite ways that the system can be manipulated to achieve any desired end.

The only virtue is vice, and the acquisition of power justifies all things.

Increasingly, everywhere in the world, people are not governed by those who wish to serve them, but ruled by those mad with power and determined to have total submission. They seem ever more fiercely inspired to greater ruthlessness. They call their hatred justice and see it as a virtue.

When will I be canonized, sir?" "Smart-mouthing your elders will forever keep

Nazis and communists have a lot in common,' Alex said. 'They want the same thing – absolute control, unqualified power.

He was the lord of memory, father of lies and he could meet any challenge.

Even if I were in charge of making policy,' Zachariah said, 'I'd take the same course Dr Tamaguchi has.