Quotes About Authority

Diarmid shrugged. How does he know anything? He's playing with lightning. I'm thinking tis best not to question him.

It was all about control, in the end, and I had it.

my voice firm as I took charge. Keeping the surface polished.

I bet a mean queen locked him up in the tower because he wouldn't give up all his loot.

The cross is a crisis point for all societies which seek to produce me in and women of quiescence, men and women who are trained to give unquestioning, uncritical obedience to worldly powers and not to Christ.

History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.

Is there any other situation in life where people feel so free to tell you what to do, short of checking you in to rehab?

But the balance of power is still tilted in favor of the doctor. When a patient tries to talk to a rushed doctor, wanting both assistance and agency, the conversation is often fraught on both sides.

Like many in their baby boomer generation, they saw doctors as unquestionable experts. You didn't go to them unless you had a high fever or a bad fall or a wound that needed stitching. In that case, you got a diagnosis, you took medicine or had surgery, and you got better, more or less in that order. But if the doctor told you nothing was wrong, nothing was wrong. My parents believed in the power of Western medicine, and therefore so did I.

If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it? Never! But if I were to make a thousand-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes!

A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!

An ant can't make a revolution, but a monkey can do; because it owns a fist! No real revolution is ever possible without fist.

Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant, and even worse than this, he is both!

Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing!

Between Napoleon and his army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but his army cannot create a Napoleon!

Do not give little man big power and do not give big man little power!

Every king needs a counsellor, a counsellor who is never afraid of the king.

Every king sleeps, but not every king wakes up as king! The snakes of the intrigue crawl around during the night! The cleverest king is the least sleeping king!

He who believes in the words of a dictator is the king of the fools!

He who loves a dictator is much more dangerous than the dictator himself.

Here is a good reply of a clever horse to the man who tries to ride and control it: Throwing him into the air!

High positions are full of low people!

Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says 'Here are the rules,' do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science!

Men like the kings and the queens because men are weak! No strong man accepts any king or queen!