Quotes About Authority

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.

Nobody believes the official spokesman, but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.

A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

Don't steal, don't lie, don't cheat, don't sell drugs. The government hates competition.

Teacher: Why are you talking during my lesson? Student: Why are you teaching during my conversation?

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

A woman is like a horse: He who can drive her is her master.

Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband.