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Quotes About Authority

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Trump is the freely elected president of the U.S. and as such deserves respect.
~ Martin Schulz
Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.
~ Michael Madsen
I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an imaginary totem pole. I give you my respect because of your actions.
~ Erica Goros
Respect is a one way street, it goes from bottom to top
~ Kamran Niazi
I would never forbid you. I can't forbid you. It's not in my power to, and it never should be.
~ Charlotte Stein, Sheltered
By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
You could refer to me as god and the odd curtsey wouldn't go a miss either
~ R.S. Burnett, Wanna Bet?
Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues.
~ Ten Bears
Give me a fight with a simple demon or devil any day, over the whims of a pissed off Fae Queen.
~ Yasmine Galenorn
Our master Caesar is in the tent Where the maps are spread, His eyes fixed upon nothing, A hand under his head. Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves upon silence.
~ Yeats, Burns, Swift and Others
Little children, never be disobedient to those who are wiser than you for disobedience was the beginning of all the miseries and sorrows of life.
~ Yei Theodora Ozaki
Yesterday, there was a Tzar and there were slaves. Today, there is no Tzar, but the slaves are still here. Tomorrow there will be only Tzars. We walk forward in the name of the free man of tomorrow, the Tzar of tomorrow. We have gone through the epoch when the masses were oppressed. We are now going through the epoch when the individual is oppressed in the name of the masses.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Sizler, tan?mad???m okurlar?m, sizler bize oranla muhtemelen çocuksunuz (sonuçta bizim arkam?zda TekDevlet var ve haliyle insan için en mümkün en yüksek doruklara erdik). Ve t?pk? çocuklar gibi, ac? ÅŸeyleri ancak tatl? ve kal?n bir macerayla kaplay?p verirsem yutacaks?n?z.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
if the speed of an aero equals zero, the aero is motionless; if human liberty is equal to zero, man does not commit any crime. That is clear. The way to rid man of criminality is to rid him of freedom.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
when man's freedom equals zero, he commits no crimes. That is clear. The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom. And now, just as we have gotten rid of it (on the cosmic scale, centuries are, of course, no more than "just"), some wretched halfwits...
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
el Estado Único dirigió su ataque contra el segundo dueño del mundo, contra el amor.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
To rule the world, man has got to rule the rulers of the world.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
İnsan? suçtan ar?nd?rman?n tek yolu onu özgürlükten ar?nd?rmakt?r.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
The way to rid man of criminality is to rid him of freedom.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
AÃ…Â¥ žije Jednotný stát, aÃ…Â¥ žijí ?ísla, aÃ…Â¥ žije Dobroditel!
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
It had never occurred to Teacher Gu that he and his wife were to pay for the bullet that would take their daughter's life, but why question such absurdity when it was not his position to ask?
~ Yiyun Li