Quotes About Authority

meeting. "This nonsense must be stopped!" he said.

John Locke and other philosophers said a government's authority could come only from the consent of the people.

quick to comfort and advise, slow to command or punish.

Quien controle Berlín controlará Alemania, y quien controle Alemania controlará Europa».

el mayor problema del comunismo era que el poder absoluto del partido siempre sofocaba el cambio. El

We hanged him in front of Kingsbridge Cathedral. It is the usual place for executions. After all, if you can't kill a man in front of God's face you probably shouldn't kill him at all.

Despite being some of the most powerful people in the world, the top men in the Kremlin were scared of stepping out of line. Marxism-Leninism answered all questions, so the eventual decision would be infallibly correct. Anyone who had argued for a different outcome was therefore revealed to be culpably out of touch with orthodox thinking. Dimka sometimes wondered if it was this bad in the Vatican.

The law makes no decisions. It has no will of its own. It's like a weapon, or a tool: it works for those who pick it up and use it.

Americans talked about voters the way Russians talked about Stalin: they had to be obeyed, right or wrong.

Parliament banned the wearing of political uniforms in public. That finished them. If they couldn't strut up and down in their black shirts they were nothing. The

The arbitrary power of wicked men

No hay ninguna ley que afirme que

Soms zou ik ook wel een opvliegend karakter willen hebben,' zei Philip. 'Dat houdt de mensen in beweging. Maar iedereen weet dat ik altijd redelijk ben, daarom word ik nooit zo snel gehoorzaamd als een prior die onverwachts woedend kan uitvallen.

hombres de poder jamás muestran gratitud. Démosles lo que les demos, lo aceptan como un derecho.

The parents cannot sell what they do not own, namely the freedom of a grown man.

They have no tsar in America—no emperor or king of any kind. The army can't just shoot anyone they like. The people rule the country!" She

Erik was one of those inadequate people who were so scared by life that they preferred to live under harsh authority, to be told what to do and what to think by a government that allowed no dissent. They were foolish and dangerous, but there were an awful lot of them. Carla

He was famous for holding meetings at which no one was allowed to sit down: he believed people reached decisions faster that way. The

Sin embargo, un exceso de disciplina podía acabar con el pensamiento crítico.

Existe um ditado que diz: se você deve 100 dólares, está na palma da mão do banco; mas, se deve um milhão, é o banco que está na palma da sua mão.

The world of power and property required that a man be suspicious, demanding, and insistent.

La lección, para unos muchachos como vosotros, es que puede haber más honor en la sumisión y en la obediencia que en una imprudente rebelión.

Han aplastado a la nobleza. —Pero también a la prensa que estaba en su contra.

dislikes the work of governing, but I'm fascinated by it." Aldred put in: "Women sometimes do it well. King Alfred of England had a daughter called Ethelfled