Quotes About Authority

corregidor y sus oficiales, que buscaban detenerse en aquellos lugares en los que podían hacer noche sin prescindir de cama y comida.

Es una simple cuestión de estética. Eso es lo que se pretende: la belleza. No se trata de transmitir ideas. Eso era antes. Ahora se persigue... —El poeta agitó las manos en el aire—. La hermosura..., incluso en la muerte. Lo único que tiene importancia es eso: el arte. El arte por el arte. No existe institución, ni territorio, ni autoridad ni sentimiento que venga a imponernos una sola letra.

No, hijo. Espera. Buscaremos otro... —Ellos mandan, padre. Los nobles mandan. Mandan en el campo, mandan en vuestras tierras y mandan en la ciudad (p. 166)

inquisidor le interrumpió y le ofreció la mano, lacia, para que hiciera la pertinente genuflexión.

To recover his citizen's rights and acquire still more new, exclusive prerogatives that would render to Laurence's authority soul and body not just the wennies, but also the entire country, he lacked just one thing—a word. … This is the marvelous word: bandit.

I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate.

Yes I can," Curran snarled. "Listen: this is me telling you what you will not do." I raised the cookbook and tapped him on the nose. Bad cat.

I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. "One last thing, Your Majesty. I'd like a name I can put into my report, something shorter than typing out 'The Leader of the Southern Shapechanger Faction.' What should I call you?" "Lord." I rolled my eyes. He shrugged. "It's short.

But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.

How come adults got away with saying things that would sound rude coming out of her mouth?

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think.

Needham comments that, according to a philosophic conception dominant in China, the cosmos is in spontaneous harmony and the regularity of phenomena is not due to any external authority. On the contrary, this harmony in nature, society, and the heavens originates from the equilibrium among these processes. Stable and interdependent, they resonate with each other in a kind of nonconcerted harmony.

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Yang disebut sekolah-sekolah Islam di Inggris menyedot habis energi murid-muridnya dengan memaksa mereka membaca dan mengingat-ngingat ayat Al-Qur'an dalam bahasa Arab, yang maknanya tidak dimengerti oleh para murid maupun guru. Jika memang ada diskusi mengenai Islam, sang Imam (yang terkadang bahkan tidak bisa bahasa Inggris) bebas mendefinisikan Islam sesuai kehendaknya, dan siapa yang bisa membantah?

Leader leads people. Leader does not follow public opinion

Virtue and absolute power may strike the Anglo-Saxon mind as terms which it is impossible to harmonize.

Alack the day when a state grows so powerful as to demand of its citizens the dictates of their conscience!

In a deserted village the jackass is king.

If one did not know how to follow orders, one would not know how to give them.

It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else

reset to remind you that you're the one in control of your marriage, not Lizzy.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts. Perhaps the fear of a loss of power." —John Steinbeck

In this respect, the concept of "the people" is converted into, say, slaves, workers, wage earners, lesser functional officials, etc., and, as well, breeders of millions of disposable and replaceable "soldiers" who fight and die in whatever wars are designated by their higher-ups.