Quotes About Authority

Dimmi, Homer, possiamo davvero dirci liberi, se lo siamo solo quando ce lo permettono? (pag. 98)

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

True Power is within, and it is available now.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within, and it is available to you now.

If the master is not present in the house, all kinds of shady characters will take up residence there.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within, and it is available

Some kid was shoving muggles. Marijuana, Dad. We call it—" "I know the names," Byrnes said.

The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod.

From the standpoint of us, who live within the law, going about our business in conformity with the code, and unquestioningly keeping to the left or to the right as the police direct, their methods were terrible, indefensible, revolting.

We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.

Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.

Among all these stupid pretty women she had such a sense of power, of knowing almost everything better than they did.

But there was about her the mysterious authority of beauty, a sureness in the carriage of the head, the movement of the eyes, which, without being in the least theatrical, struck him as highly trained and full of a conscious power. (Newland Archer of Countess Olenska)

All the girls feared their Father less than they did their Mother, because she sometimes remembered things and he did not. Lord Brightlingsea was swept through life on a steady amnesiac flow.

His daughter, as part of himself, came within the normal range of his solicitude; but she was an outlying region, a subject province; and Mr. Orme's was a highly centralized polity.

Mr. Sillerton Jackson había devuelto los anteojos a Lawrence Lefferts. Todos los miembros del grupo se volvieron instintivamente a él, esperando escuchar lo que el anciano diría, pues Mr. Jackson era toda una autoridad en familias, así como Lawrence Lefferts lo era en formalidades.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding. And to prevent the least hope of amendment, a king is ever surrounded by a crowd of infamous flatterers, who find their account in keeping him from the least light of reason, till all ideas of rectitude and justice are utterly erased from his mind.

When you drive him hard, the boar will surely turn upon the hunters. If that sovereignty and their freedom cannot be reconciled, which will they take? They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No-body will be argued into slavery.

A government of five hundred country attornies and obscure curates is not good for twenty-four millions of men, though it were chosen by eight and forty millions; nor is it the better for being guided by a dozen of persons of quality, who have betrayed their trust in order to obtain that power.

Whilst every principle of authority and resistance has been pushed, upon both sides, as far as it would go, there is nothing so solid and certain, either in reasoning or in practice, that has not been shaken.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts