Quotes About Authority

Are they going to let you to make up the test?" I ask.

You dare speak to me in such an insolent manner?' 'Stop talking like you're two hundred years old. You're sixteen, just like me.

I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking.

You can't make no full-grown man do nothin', even if what you tellin' him is right.

In the end, if he didn't change his mind, we usually defaulted to his leading since he was the one who had to report to God on behalf of our family (I learned that in a Titus 2 class at church).

We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exercise power. For those upon whom that power is exercised, naiveté is always a mistake.

The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.

Cliff was the backbone. Cliff was the guy that everybody looked to. If there was a big decision to be made it was done in the inner workings. But it seemed to me, if there was something Cliff wasn't gonna like, it wasn't gonna happen. Cliff was the Keith Richards of the band. No one fucked with Cliff.

Control and power go hand in hand and there is no greater power than power over life and death. The moment one has another's life literally in one's hands, one is ultimately powerful, almost godlike. When one is in this position, one is no longer the victim, since someone else has become the victim.

Serial killers do not take responsibility for killing; they are of the opinion that it is the police's responsibility to prevent them from killing.

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.

In these statements the interpretation of the speaker is given the same validity as the Bible, making the interpreter's words inerrant. I believe in the Bible, but not necessarily in how the Bible is interpreted by humans.

Órdenes; para eso se inventó el teléfono, para capturar a los enemigos del gobierno!

In prison there's no bad, everything's worse. Worse bellyache, worse misery, worse sadness--the worst of the worst. Jailers and judges seem like people without reason, deranged. Compliance with rules and regulations which have nothing to do with reality turns them into madmen, at least they seem such to those not under the strange influence of the law.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

En esta España de calzonazos —decía— los curas manejan a las mujeres y las mujeres a los hombres...

Lay ley es siempre triste, don Augusto

Não ser pode ser fraco com os fracos, não se pode prescindir de exercer tudo o que nos cabe de autoridade, seja natural ou apenas "ex officio".

The important thing is that the energy is under their own control

The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments. And

Sometimes fields that are not competent in the domain take control over it.

We must know the power of truth and experience the truth about power.