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Quotes About Authority

God is everywhere, except where he has a delegate.
~ Proverb
God save us from four people: doctors, notaries, pharmacists, and bad bosses.
~ Proverb
Government is merciless
~ Proverb
Have no dealings with monks and priests.
~ Proverb
He builds a castle by demolishing a country. #CVirusTruth
~ Proverb
Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free. #Extraditionplea
~ Proverb
Lawyers' houses are built on the heads of fools. #Lawyersprotest
~ Proverb
Men's ignorance makes the pot boil for priests.
~ Proverb
Rarely is a fight continued when the chief has fallen.
~ Proverb
The doctor is more to be feared than the disease. #Lockdown2
~ Proverb
The doctor is more to be feared than the disease.
~ Proverb
The harm done by an elephant is like that done by a storm, or by the government.
~ Proverb
The open secret to fast growing and becoming the functional head in the private company is to do the boot-licking of the boss.
~ Proverb
The person who is his own master cannot tolerate another boss. It's better to be without a book than to believe a book entirely. When economy goes south, people get political.
~ Proverb
The pope eats peasants, gulps gentlemen, and voids monks.
~ Proverb
There are three who have to give an accounting to God; the judges, the priests, and the godparents.
~ Proverb
To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject.
~ Proverb
A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
~ Publilius Syrus
He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
~ Publilius Syrus
The empire of custom is most mighty.
~ Publilius Syrus
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions
~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
WHEN ignorance reigns in society and disorder in the minds of men, laws are multiplied
~ Pyotr Kropotkin