Quotes About Authority

The great Creator has divided His power with no other being; far less with inanimate objects, as you have been taught to believe, for He alone is omnipotent and all-sufficient.

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

Our dear comrade Jiang Qing told us, 'Smash to pieces the security and law enforcement agencies.

He laid a hand on my arm and said calmly, with resignation, "Don't get excited and angry. It's useless to get angry with them. They have the last word always. If they say something happened, it happened. It's useless to resist. I've learned this from my personal experience.

Without an army, what can politicians achieve?

It could be said that Christianity's "psychology" was its preoccupation with sin, guilt, penance, and authority.

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Shut the f@@k up

What do you want?" in a curt hard voice, which he had practised in his room in private, and before the looking-glass, for a whole week before being raised to his present rank.

You can do anything and smash anything in the world with a kopeck.

I brought you into this world. It is on me to take it away.

La Russie vole, franchissant tout, dépassant tout — tout ce qui existe sur la terre — et les nations ne peuvent que s'écarter pour lui livrer passage.

SILENCE you miserable cretins!

Maybe law is closer related to art than most of us are aware of. But art and power do often stand in a strained relationship.

They've worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.

Obedience seemed the safest plan. I hadn't learned yet. In this world it's the obedient girls who are most in danger.

That to own things did not necessarily mean one belonged; that possession was no guarantee of control

You must never forget that dealing with a monarch is not like dealing with an ordinary man," Ibn Sina said. "A king is not like you or me. He drops a hand carelessly and someone like us is put to death. Or he wiggles a finger and someone is allowed to live. That is absolute power, and no man born of woman is able to resist it. It drives even the best of monarchs slightly mad.

People in power fight to stay in power," says the Prophet. "This is the nature of power.

has all the benefits of being a king with none of the burdens. He does not have to feed his kingdom or keep his citizens safe. He does not have to worry about the disfavor of the church or infighting in his court. He has no court, no successors. He

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.