Quotes About Authority

Things that were forbidden were often precisely what the heart most wanted. Things became more attractive because they were forbidden by some cruel or uncomprehending authority.

It is the comfortable people, by and large - those like the Reading Teacher - who make the decisions in our society. It is the people who those decisions are going to affect who are expected to stand quietly, and watch patiently, and wait.

One hundred years before the present government existed, a powerful leader, Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia, stated his views in clear, unflinching terms. I thank God, he said, that there are no free schools nor printing [in this land]. For learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing hath divulged them...God save us from both!

Open duh computer." Germans ought to farm out all positions of petty authority. The accent remained too full of implication.

People who have a choice will no longer work to serve your reasons, your goals. They will not work to serve your authority, they will only work to serve their own.

The beauty of postmodernism was that it erased the world with one hand while rewriting it with the other, allowing you to inherit the authority you discredited like a spoil of war.

Home is the place with the most rules.

When you're a dad, there's no one above you. If I don't do something that has to be done, who is going to do it?

If you want to know who protects you from the people that take without asking, it is the police. If you want to know who protects you from the police, it is the people who take without asking. And very often they are the same people.

I am the one who broke the rule. But I am the one who made the rule you couldn't live with.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." The protective emphasis is not a law of nature; it comes from the stories we tell about nature.

When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.

todas as terras que um súdito descobre, pertencem, de direito, à coroa.

So that, upon the whole, there must be some kind of subjection due from every man to every man, which cannot be made void by any power, pre-eminence, or authority whatsoever. 

The emperor, and all his court, came out to meet us; but his great officers would by no means suffer his majesty to endanger his person by mounting on my body. At

Añadió que nuestra institución de gobierno y de ley obedecía, sencillamente, a los grandes defectos de nuestra razón y, por consiguiente, de nuestra virtud, ya que la razón por sí sola es suficiente para dirigir un ser racional.

is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

Yo no tengo autoridad moral para juzgar a nadie; en mi vida he hecho muchas locuras por amor y quien sabe si hare mas antes de morirme. El amor es un rayo que nos golpea de subito y nos cambia.

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

A miracle has the right to impose conditions.

Glencairn, tal vez omnipotente en la ciudad que una firma al pie de un decreto le destinó, era una mera cifra en los engranajes de la administración del Imperio.

Bandeira, sin embargo, siempre es nominalmente el jefe. Da órdenes que no se ejecutan

This delay (whose importance the reader will appreciate later) was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.

Burning books and erecting fortifications are the usual occupations of princes. - The Wall and the Books