Quotes About Authority

There is no law that gods must be fair,

Next time you're going to defy the gods, do it for a better reason.

King Agamemnon." Achilles stepped forward. His voice was easy, almost amused. "I don't think anyone has forgotten that you are leader of this host. But you do not seem to remember that we are kings in our own right, or princes, or heads of our families. We are allies, not slaves." A few men nodded; more would have liked to.

He was large, but I was a goddess, and we were of a height. "I need your cloak," I said to him, "and your tunic, at once." His eyes narrowed, and I could see the reflexive no in them. I would come to know this type of man, jealous of his little power, to whom I was only a woman.

I felt sorry for the other kings who had to fight for their authority or wore it poorly, their gestures jagged and rough. With Achilles it was graceful as a blessing, and the men lifted their faces to it as they would a to priest.

Seperti juga bagi orang-orang pribumi lain, bagi Salim itu pun logika yang tidak bisa diusik-usik. Bila kita kuli kontrak, kita pun kehilangan semua kemanusiaan dan hak kita. Kita harus selalu melakukan apa yang diperintahkan oleh seorang tuan administratur untuk melakukannya, dan karena itu akan sangat ganjillah bila kita harus sakit karena satu pon daging busuk

I have the same goal I've had since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Trump knew that he was being told something he did not fully comprehend, and instead of acknowledging that, he shouted down the teachers.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

You, reader, are alive today, reading this, because someone once adequately policed your mouth exploring.

a man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.

The happiness police are going to come and arrest us if we go on this way. Arrest us for our luck.

The chubby white suburban teenagers impersonating cops were precisely the kind of men to whom we would have preferred not to unload this story.

How can they not have invited him to this meeting? He used to have influence – he used to rule over them all. He used to be someone.

and I took hers, it was as simple as that, but Father said I must never say, that—

it's customary in the empire to grant positions of high office to people who know little about their subject; in my case the custom is being maintained to the letter.

President means Chief Servant.

There can be no reconciliation without a reorganization of power.

The moral certainty about preventing another genocide imparts a moral justification to the pursuit of power with impunity.

Graveyards have the dignity of air, the authority of dust.

Who am I to say to you what I'm saying?

According to his opinion, man should only believe what he can grasp with his intellectual faculties, or perceive by his senses, or what he can accept on trustworthy authority. Beyond this nothing should be believed.