Quotes About Authority

In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master.

To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which all other authority derives—such

I would be—and will be—much disappointed in you if you ever simply injure a policeman. A wounded policeman is more dangerous than a wounded lion.

But a well-run tyranny is almost as scarce as an efficient democracy.

Locked you in a padded cell, with a certificate signed by three doctors, and allowed you mail on alternate leap years.

To be court-martialed—for any reason—is eight times as bad for an officer as for an enlisted man. Offenses which will get privates kicked out (maybe with lashes, possibly without) rate death in an officer. Better never to have been born!

Harshaw held that certain feet were made for stepping on, in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare, and minimize the ancient insolence of office; he had seen at once that Heinrich had such feet.

Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything—you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

He shall rule them with a rod of iron. —Revelations II:25

That we were slaves I had known all my life—and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold—but as long as Authority held monopoly over what we had to have and what we could sell to buy it, we were slaves.

he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers.

intelligence" in the military meaning; a man in a suit can be just as stupid as anybody else—only he had better not be)

joking. A slave needs privileges to keep him quiet.

What I fear most are affirmative actions of sober and well- intentioned men, granting to government powers to do something that appears to need doing.

There was a lot to be said for the job of assistant section leader—when you come right to it, it's a lot easier to die than it is to use your head.

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws—always for other fellow.

So far as I have listened, before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.

I had come to realize that they either didn't care or wouldn't care. All that mattered to them was whether or not you were part of Boss's outfit.

His profession makes him feel like boss of all creation; when he sets foot dirtside he is slumming among the peasants. As for his sartorial inelegance, a man who is in uniform nine-tenths of the time and is more used to deep space than to civilization can hardly be expected to know how to dress properly.

more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better—and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.

suspect it will be the harshest tyranny imaginable; majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows.

Buras? da tüm iyi ailelerde olduÄŸu gibi anarÅŸi ve tiranl???n bir kar???m?d?r, demokrasiye yer yoktur.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers . . . and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible.