Quotes About Authority

If you don't know what the hell the martial arts are, why are you a judge?

Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace.

The soldier was like that. He was an expert in getting other people to do what he wanted. The only creature that could make the soldier do something he did not want was Midnight, and Midnight did things she did not want only when Whippersnapper wanted something. That put the kitten right at the top of the pecking order. A kitten!

It was time for a strong-minded woman to take charge. Abdullah was quite glad that Sophie was one.

He held out his hand to Sophie, just like Mrs. Pentstemmon, but a little less royally. Sophie levered herself up, wondering if she was meant to kiss this hand or not. But since she felt more like raising her stick and beating the King over the head with it, she shook the King's hand and gave a creaking little curtsy.

All power corrupts, but we need electricity.

The job Chrestomanci has is to make sure this world isn't run entirely by witches. Ordinary people have rights too.

TONINO READ HALF THE NIGHT. With all the grown-ups hard at work in the Scriptorium, there was no one to tell him to go to bed.

The person who knows 'how' will always have a job. The person who knows 'why' will always be his boss.

It's easy to be disciplined when you have no freedoms.

Tyrants come and go, tyranny is constant.

When possession is legitimized by force, where does the issue of theft arise? I'm

Both the fascists and the progressives viewed the centralized state as the logical outgrowth of everything they stood for.

coercive government policies strip the virtue out of every transaction.

we now have a Leviathan state, far from the limited government the Founders envisioned.

Fascism is state-directed capitalism.

bulls and even royal edicts were largely ignored thousands of miles

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She could assassinate streets with her eyes

A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.

God made big people. And God made little people. But Colt made the .45 to even things up.

Any curly-haired boy can write windswept ballads. You have to crush people's heads. That's the only way to make those fuckers listen.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.