Quotes About Authority

Once we have power, we shall never again give it up, unless we are carried out as corpses from our offices.

That is the problem with being twelve. All the grown-ups think they have a right to know your business.

The people who influence our presidents matter.

The black man was expected to follow the dictates of Sol and the white masters. Good Negro communists were to be unquestioning Negro communists, who sat quietly and did as they were told. A good black communist listened to the white communist—his comradely master. For all their bluster about elevating blacks, this was how communists treated their African-American brothers.

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.

Actually, my children. I AM GOD, and I will rule all space and time.

Society's rules don't always work. They're limited by human frailty.

Thrasymachus said it was just a word invented by the victors to rule the losers. Like, we won the war; now we make the laws.

in a county where gun control means holding it with two hands.

Federal judges are kings and queens. They are appointed for life. No messy elections, no grubbing for lawyers' campaign contributions. They sit on thrones above the lowly members of their kingdom and are served by a royal retinue of law clerks, judicial assistants, court clerks, jury clerks, courtroom deputies, administrators, and, for all I know, court jesters.

You don't buy a Supreme Court judge," Max said. "Nobody ever has.

Wearing an off-white skier's jumpsuit, he had a bullhorn in one hand, a walkie-talkie clipped to his belt, a digital thermometer zippered on his sleeve, and a revolver holstered on his hip.

Todd also realized, pretty early on, that the producer didn't really do shit, and that it was the engineer who had all the controls!

only as much power over us as we willingly give him or her.

The more you try to control another person, the more you are under that person's control." If how you feel or what you do next depends on what the person you are trying to control does or does not do next, then you are under that person's control.

I learned from my parents the ability to question, never to trust implicitly those in charge, not to believe the promises made in speeches and never to ignore the atrocious propaganda posters in public places … this kind of propaganda is designed to cause fear, and people who live in fear of a common enemy can be easily manipulated.

Just from Farrell stalking away I was absorbing so much, including the fact that at any given moment in history, and excluding nurses and brides, there are only at most three people on the planet who can get away with wearing all white, and Farrell was at least two of them.

The presence of the policeman around the corner is the only thing that keeps us civilised.

Dissent has been crushed, and freedom is a memory, all in the name of peace and order.

Vader made most of the naval officers he encountered uncomfortable

Underlings should always be uncomfortable in the presence of their superiors

Vader made most of the naval officers he encountered uncomfortable. To them, he was a towering dark figure outside their chain of command who had emerged from nowhere and possessed powers they did not understand.