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Quotes About Authority

he who feeds you, controls you
~ Thomas Sankara
Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
~ Henry A. Kissinger
I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.
~ Wilhelm II
If someone is very hungry, the Angkar will take him where he will be stuffed with food.
~ Pol Pot
The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.
~ Confucius
If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.
~ Henry A. Kissinger
The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission
~ Grace Hopper
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.
~ Louis Dudek
If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.
~ Rollo May
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
~ Unknown
An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.
~ Sun Yat-sen
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
~ Pythagoras
I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.
~ Vladimir Putin
Where there is authority, there is no freedom.
~ Peter Kropotkin
How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
~ Miguel de Cervantes
If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.
~ Renzo Piano
The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
~ William McKinley
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
~ Herbert Spencer
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
~ Lysander Spooner
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
~ Herbert Spencer
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
~ Joseph Stalin
The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.
~ Sigrid Undset