Quotes About Authority

Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.

Boys are still led to believe that power is associated with domination.

Government has the power to help improve well-being

It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

Authorities! Permits! Insurance! How I yearn for the days when a man could just bust loose, tear around and get what needs to be done, done.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

There is no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around

The Caine Mutiny,

in status, he became a plantation manager,

Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.

their chests. Mr. Ryu tells us to get off the bus and go inside

People fail to realize the technical conditions of drama, and think that, in the case of so simple a matter as playwriting, everyone is as good a judge as his neighbor. With regard to music and painting, you will hear people modestly confess that they have no expert knowledge, though "they know what they like." With regard to drama, they are troubled with no such diffidence. They not only know what they like, but they know what you ought to like, and more especially what you ought to despise.

When you command, remember 'tis but speech To bid a thing be acted to your mind

parasites seldom altogether abandon a monarch so long as the crown still glitters on his head. ("The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah")

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression

One Law for the Lion & Ox is Oppression.