Quotes About Authority

He tears down my handiwork, boxes my ears, and croaks: ' ''T' maister nobbut just buried, and Sabbath nut oe'red, und t' sahnd uh't gospel still i' yer lugs, and yah darr be laiking! shame on ye! sit ye dahn, ill childer! they's good books enough if ye'll read 'em; sit ye dahn, and think uh yer sowls!

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them.

Don't you know that No is the wildest word we consign to Language?

The minister goes stiffly in As if the house were his, And he owned all the mourners now

You may attack royalty, or deny its will, but you must never, never ignore it

I don't have to answer to you. For anything." Willy's eyes narrowed. "Okay," Eddi said. "I should be patient. But all three of us just spent the last—however long it was—with people trying to kill us. It frays your temper. So if you want to discuss the night's events, do it. But if you'd rather play B-movie gestapo officer, you can play somewhere else.

Which means what?" "That the Queen of Faerie recognizes you as a power, and has spoken to you with respect. Others will follow her lead." "Huh. That and a quarter will buy me a gumball.

The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.

I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most prominent people connected with the anarchist cause could make in ten years. If they will only continue I shall be very grateful; they will save me lots of work.

Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only 'order' that governments have ever maintained.

Anarchism proposes to rescue the self-respect and independence of the individual from all restraint and invasion by authority. Only in freedom can man grow to his full stature. Only in freedom will he learn to think and move, and give the very best in him. Only in freedom will he realize the true force of the social bonds which knit men together, and which are the true foundation of a normal social life.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet, how can any one speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?

The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.

La raison d'Etat (...) a toujours servi à masquer la tyrannie, l'exploitation et la détermination des dirigeants à prolonger et perpétuer leur domination Emma Goldman, 1935, le communisme n'existe pas en Russie

Ben inan?yorum, hatta asl?nda biliyorum ki, insan?n düÅŸündükleri ve yapt?klar? iyi ve güzel olan ne varsa, bunlar?n hepsi hükümetlere raÄŸmen vard?r, onlar sayesinde deÄŸil.

En qué creo es algo más bien cambiante antes que algo irreversible. Lo definitivo es para los dioses y los gobiernos, no para la inteligencia humana.

But what are normal demands to an abnormal institution?

In fact, there is hardly a modern thinker who does not agree that government, organized authority, or the State, is necessary only to maintain or protect property and monopoly. It has proven efficient in that function only.

El poder de los jefes reside en la tristeza de los disciplinados.

Una mujer a la que le gustan los frutos prohibidos y odia a los vigilantes de los parques públicos no puede ser del todo mala.

I don't mind taking orders from them as has the right to give them, she said, but take orders from that ridiculous bird I will not.

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Shut up, Julius! I mean, quiet a moment, Commander.

That's the last order I'll ever give you Captain. Don't you dare ignore it.