Quotes About Authority

Don't worry. The chaps train for civil disobedience suppression. We'll crack a few heads, chuck some of the would-be revolutionaries in jail, and the rest will slink off back to their hovels and drink themselves stupid all night. And if worse comes to worst, well, we've got all the guns, haven't we?

Prime Minister Adolphus sat at a broad desk at the far end, surrounded by a cluttered nest of bookcases and cheap metal filing cabinets.

The Micklethwaite family who owned and ran Cuckoo Farm were huddled in a group, sleepy and bewildered in thick coats thrown on over their pajamas. Three kids, aged between seven and twelve, were clinging to their parents. An old woman, whom Sid took to be the grandmother, was starting to argue with an agent, her croaky voice rising. She was claiming a lot of rights, as well as being insulting about Nazis and corrupt government officials.

I was never a dictator, I just had a huge amount of political clout.

Human civilization is always regulated, Del. It's how it maintains itself, the eternal balance between freedom and authority. We all live in the middle, obeying the rules for the common good.

must remember that military force ultimately exists to serve the civilian populace, even though we might despise their choice of leaders.

Pompous old farts need to have the piss taken out of them every now and then." She put her hands together in Buddhist fashion, and crossed her eyes. "It puts them in touch with their Oneness.

What is it every authoritarian government says? If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear.

Sometimes you just have to make the choice—because if you're in the position to make that choice, you have the right to make it.

Slvasta's revolution destroyed his dictatorship

Without its captain, the blackhawk would have to obey an Edenist.

And who decides what true is?

And it was quite difficult to insert, wasn't it, girls? You know, I actually had to hold them down to do it, there was so much girly squealing and wiggling. And look at them now, happy to do as they're told.

Ninety-nine percent are just rebelling against their parents now they've finally left home. But they're susceptible to radicalization. Somebody's got to stop them being exploited by the real zealot shits; the university deans don't do a damn thing.

You are responsible to your political paymasters, and their eternal quest for the status quo.

One did not have to be a Jesuit to recognize that to control the schools was to control the future.

Much as they feared democracy, they determined to shape it. Their motto became "Let us educate our new masters".

Only a people trained to accept being ruled by a violent power structure can really question someone's right and need to forcefully defend herself against oppression.

An anarchist is not someone who favors chaos but someone who favors the total liberation of the world through the abolition of capitalism, government, and all other forms of oppressive authority, to be replaced by any number of other social arrangements, proven or utopian.

paterfamilias.

Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.

The further down the Catholic Church hierarchy one looks, the more brave and principled behavior one finds.

Charisma often flows from total self-confidence.

Akhenaten's kingship provides an unintended caricature of all modern leaders who indulge in the trappings of charismatic display.