Quotes About Authority

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Man has responsiblity, not power. Tuscarora

Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.

Kral?na kar?? hakl? olan bir vekil, kocas?na kar?? hakl? olan bir kad?n, subay?na kar?? hakl? olan bir nefer; bunlar?n hepsi iki kat cezaya çarpt?r?lmaz m?? Zay?flar için hakl? olmak suçtur.

Heureusement que les monarques vont parfois trop loin, sinon ils ne tomberaient jamais" (dans Léon l'Africain)

When I find a trustworthy man, he lacks ambition and scorns the apparatus of power; and when a man appears ready to jump at the first office I offer him, his haste unnerves me.

C'est que l'Occident ne veut pas qu'on lui ressemble, il veut seulement qu'on lui obéisse.

dès lors que l'on a la technologie adéquate et un bon prétexte pour contrôler, on contrôlera.

À présent, tout ce qui n'est pas interdit est obligatoire !

Yöneticilerin en kötüsü seni sopalayan deÄŸil, seni kendi kendini sopalamaya zorlayand?r.

Tell her that the qualities needed to govern are not those which are needed in order to accede to power.

Zaman müttefikimiz deÄŸil bizim, yarg?c?m?z.

De ce fait, s'il est raisonnable d'admettre que l'État, comme disait Reagan, peut parfois être « le problème », il est tout à fait légitime de se demander si l'absence d'État n'est pas, quelquefois, un problème plus grave encore.

Tenk så mange fornuftige reformer som har mislykkes fordi de bar stemplet til en forhatt myndighet! Og omvendt, så mange uforstandige handlinger som er blitt bejublet fordi de ble approbert av en med legitimitet fra kampmarken! Dette er en sannhet som er gyldig overalt, når et forslag blir lagt ut til avstemning, uttaler velgerne seg i mindre grad om selve saken enn om hvilken tiltro de har til han eller de som har lagt den fram.

Le drame, pour les Européens, c'est que dans le monde impitoyable qui est le nôtre, si l'on renonce à devenir une puissance musclée, on finit par se faire bousculer, et malmener, et rançonner. On ne devient pas un arbitre respecté, on devient une victime potentielle, et un futur otage.

Yet what use against the deceit of a state are the memories of a child?

Voltaire would mock the empire as "neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire,

The sole purpose of terms such as spirit and immortal soul was to allow unscrupulous and corrupt clergymen to frighten men and subject them to their will.

is a Civill Warr with the Pen, which pulls out the sorde soon afterwards.

Having read all of whitie's books, I wanted to be an authority on them. Having been taught that art was "what white men do," I almost became one, to have a go at it.

Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us.

THE KING AND HIS PEOPLE