Quotes About Authority

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' Our principle is that the Communist Party commands the gun and the gun will never be allowed to command the Party.

Power grows from the barrel of a gun.

It is hard for them to condemn the gerontocratic ideal advocated by Cicero and Cato because that denouncement itself, coming from them, could easily pass, in the guise of preserved or rediscovered youth, as a claim to authority, as a coy claim to wisdom, experience, and power, at the very least the power of influence.

In order to remain relevant, you must establish yourself as a thought leader in your industry.

Gangway for de Lawd God Jehovah!

Dans le cercle du pouvoir, il n'y a aucun secret, seulement des types qui font semblant de ne pas savoir.

What if they gave a test and nobody came? What would happen if, on the day teachers hand out the No. 2 pencils, parents decide that no child of theirs will be left behind to fill in the bubbles?

Congress still preserved its constitutionally mandated power of the purse.

What's amazing about this rule is that people don't even know consciously that it exists, yet it is the kingpin that keeps millions of people chained down. The rule is simple, and incredibly insidious: "Thou shalt not question the operating system thou art given!" What's weird is that you can rebel against the system, but you can't question it.

At what stage such a man might start styling himself as 'king' must have varied from case to case.

there were always two emperors, ruling two separate empires, with two separate armies.

referring to conflicts between the various rulers who had emerged in western Britain since the break with Rome.

Coenwulf dealt briskly with these challenges to his rule.

The Emergence of Kings and Kingdoms

the story of Offa's rise to power is frustratingly obscure.

Given that he would go on to reign for almost forty years, Offa must have been a young man in 757,

although he wielded supreme power over the whole island,

According to another contemporary author, writing in the 970s, the king ordered that thieves and robbers were to be punished by having their eyes put out, their ears ripped off, their nostrils carved open and their hands and feet removed, before being scalped and left in the open fields at night to be eaten by wild beasts and birds.

once in power he soon embarked upon a plan far more ambitious than that of any of his predecessors.

through which the king, wearing his crown, was presented to his people as a divinely appointed figure of power.

But they were at least allowed to retain the fig leaf of royal status.

Offa had demoted them to the rank of provincial governors.

in English.