Quotes About Authority

A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks.

One has to tell people what to think. There is no alternative. Otherwise, someone else will do it.

Gdyby umie? spojrze? tak, jak Jenta to widzi, zobaczy?oby si?, ?e w istocie ?wiat sk?ada si? ze s?ów, które raz powiedziane, roszcz? sobie odt?d pretensje do wszelkiego porz?dku i wszystko wydaje si? dzia? pod ich dyktando, wszystko im podlega.

The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

What do you expect us to do?" "Set the wheels in motion. Punish the culprits. Change the law." "That's too much. You can't want all those things," he said. "Oh yes I can! And I'm the one to define what I can want," I shouted furiously

In a pulpit Man places himself above other Creatures and grants himself the right to their life and death.

One has to tell people what to think. There's no alternative. Otherwise someone else will do it.

For it is God's business to create, and people's business to name.

It's a tendency to be sybaritic, to live in a state of mild semiconsciousness, to fritter your life away on petty pleasures, to dislike effort and be devoid of any penchant for competition. Long mornings, unopened letters, things put off for later, abandoned projects. A dislike of any authority and a refusal to submit to it, going your own way in a taciturn, idle manner. You could say such people are of no use at all.

In fact, no real heresy could ever come about in Polish. By its nature, the Polish language is obedient to every orthodoxy.

A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks," Dizzy sermonized with contagious certainty.

We were interrogated as if we had murdered the Commandant with our own hands. Luckily

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

He [Oliver Cromwell] in a furious manner, bid the Speaker leave his chair; told the house That they had sat long enough, unless they had done more good; and that it was not fit they should sit as a parliament any longer, and desired them to go away.

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those who toil

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

For just experience tells; in every soil,That those that think must govern those that toil.

the laws govern the poor, and the rich govern the law

Now, Sir, for my own part, as I naturally hate the face of a tyrant, the farther off he is removed from me, the better pleased am I. The generality of mankind also are of my way of thinking, and have unanimously created one king, whose election at once diminishes the number of tyrants, and puts tyranny at the greatest distance from the greatest number of people.

Thus the people, who could not bear the very name of king, readily submitted to a magistrate possessed of much greater power; so much do the names of things mislead us, and so little is any form of government irksome to the people, when it coincides with their prejudices.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.