Quotes About Authority

What was a face on television but a code, and what was the difference between these faces but a realignment of line and color to shift among signals? If he grasped deeply this language of symbols, grasped it beneath the surface, he could course through the currents of authority as they coursed through him like heat or the tremble of cold.

Although she didn't have the plumbing, she deluded herself that she was the modern W.C. (about Margaret Thatcher, M.T.)

Little leading makes much following.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

You got a power source

I have known kings and criminals. I prefer criminals. They cheat, steal and betray, but at least you don't have to worship them while they do it.

About Edgar J Hoover "I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in"

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

While other monks in training were routinely whipped with whips made of leather straps, the whip reserved for the Dalai Lama was made of yellow silk.

Independence gained through violence could well end in a dictatorship.

That edict remains in place to the present day.

I rather doubt that anyone tells Lord Hylton what to do," she said dryly.

even a pope who tried to free the Church from feudalism could not free his own mind or government from feudal methods.

Showing up underdressed is as smart as standing in the marketplace and shouting you've become an agent for the crown." "I'd hang myself first. I hate being a female." "Well until you sprout a beard and cock there you are.

It's hard to say no to a grown-up lady who smiles at you.

Navarre made it clear that Marie-Madeleine Fourcade had his full confidence and that Boutron must accept her authority. She was, the chief added, "the pivot around which everything turns. She is the most valuable of us all." He described her in glowing terms, saying she had "the memory of an elephant, the cleverness of a fox, the guile of a serpent, the perseverance of a mole, and the fierceness of a panther.

She thought only men of property and talent should hold positions in government and once elected they should be allowed to rule with a minimum of popular interference. ..They cast off their old habits of frugality and tried to rise above social position as well - a double sin.

she learned slowly and painfully that it was easier to overthrow a government than to create a one...

But I remembered Ephesians 6:12, and it seemed to fit: "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Yes and No the two most powerful words.

When I am void of power, I am void of self-control.

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime… whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber… or by millions, calling themselves a government.

Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this consent of 'the people' exists only in theory. It has no existence in fact. Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.