Quotes About Authority

Man's word is God in man.

Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things.

Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand.

Only He who has the power to punish can pardon.

This isn't fiction, the man says. This is the Post Office.

The power of the lie, Daniel said. Always seductive to the powerless.

When the state is not kind, then the people are fodder.

Mess up my climate, I'll fuck with your lives. Your lives are a nothing to me. I'll yank daffodils out of the ground in December. I'll block up your front door in April with snow and blow down that tree so it cracks your roof open. I'll carpet your house with the river. But I'll be the reason your own sap's reviving. I'll mainline the light to your veins.

The Essentials of English, book of choice of the older boys at St. Faith's for spanking the younger boys with, leaving a particular broad-natured pain ever afterwards associated with grammar.

Perhaps the day will come, George thought, when I will listen to my father. For now though, how can I? He's my father.

It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.

The others adapted, for nothing quelled a revolution more quickly—wrote Pauline Schulz—than the prevailing powers inviting it in for drinks.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

our production of the world, our interpretation of it, what we've been told to experience and what we've been told we have to do, both worry and distress me. I don't want to live in someone else's dream.

Chaotic to cast out kings

And if I am I must still bring down the pyramid, the paradigm, the leader's pearl throne.

Nobody's as powerful as we make them out to be.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

It was just too tense, being with Daddy. He wanted everything done in a certain way that only he knew about. I was afraid to move half the time. One I spilled some juice on one of his foreign rugs, and he told me I would never find a husband.

It is dangerous to be right on matters in which the established authorities are wrong.

They obey older laws.

Dinin ard?na s???n?r monar?iler, Oysa do?as?nda ateisttir devletler.