Quotes About Authority

The struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Nesta terra, só os políticos podem dormir e acordar de bom humor.

a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn't be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet.

In the end, your belly was your emperor.

But ideas can make men forget their own interests. And the guys in charge will exploit men who believe in ideas too much.

I'll take care of myself and my people. You think I'd trust my life to a bunch of politicians? The people in charge don't know anything. And the ones who do don't care.

At this point in the course, everyone in the room despised Akiko, but suddenly he admired her courage to think so differently and to suggest such a difficult truth. He felt lucky to be at a university and not in most other settings, where the person in charge was always right. Nevertheless, until he really listened to Akiko disagree with the professor, he had not thought for himself fully, and it had never occurred to him to disagree in public.

There's no such thing as a benevolent leader. ... Those communists don't care about you. They don't care about anybody.

I'll take care of myself and my people. You think I'd trust my life to a bunch of politicians? The people in charge don't know anything. And the ones who do don't care." Sunja

But here's the truth: There's no such thing as a benevolent leader.

A parent must be decisive; a child cannot protect himself.

The people in charge don't know anything. And the ones who do don't care.

When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say.

Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say. You can calmly say, 'Can I first call my mom and ask if I have to do this, please?

One time after the adoption papers came through I was fooling around with a water pistol and, in a childish bid for attention, sprayed her. She came after me and said, "If you were my real child I'd give you a good spanking." It was like a slap in the face. I thought I was her child.

I was thoroughly fed up with the system. I had followed the rules for all these years, but there was no way I could stay in the system and do what I wanted to do. The whole reason why the organization of Gion Kobu had been systematized in the first place was to ensure the dignity and financial independence of the women who worked there. Yet the strictures of the Inoue School kept us subservient to its authority. There was no room for any sort of autonomy.

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

Our imaginations are in thrall to the institutions of oppression.

I explained about how we were in Rick's hands and also how he had washed his hands.

Statul, numit de toate rasele Lew-Yathan, are întotdeauna în frunte, ales de întreaga obÅŸte, pe cel mai tic?los, mai corupt ÅŸi mai viclean cet??ean. Teoria spune c?, focalizând ura tuturor, ca o lentil?, suveranul poate produce o raz? nimicitoare în confruntarea cu inamicul.

Though the face of the steersman is forward, the boat drifts as it pleases. Though the king is in the palace, though the rudder is in your hand, wrong is done around you. Long is my plea, heavy my task, "What is the matter with him ?" people ask. Be a shelter, make safe your shore, See how your quay is infested with crocodiles! Straighten your tongue, let it not stray, A serpent is this limb of man. Don't tell lies, warn the magistrates, Greasy baskets are the judges.

The king has been robbed by beggars.

He who poured water on the ground seizes the mighty in misery.

You are like a town without a mayor, Like a troop without a leader, Like a ship without a captain, A company without a chief. You are a sheriff who steals, A mayor who pockets, A district prosecutor of crime Who is the model for the (evil)-doer!