Quotes About Authority

What are the only weapons I possess, Tiro? he asked me, and then he answered his own question. These. he said, gesturing at his books. Words. Caesar and Pompey have their soldiers, Crassus his wealth, Clodius his bullies on the street. My only legions are my words. By language I rose, and by language I shall survive.

It sounded legitimate when one put it that way – governing through the people: what could be fairer? – but really 'the people' were the mob

Cuáles son las únicas armas que poseo, Tiro? -me preguntó, y él mismo respondió-: Estas -dijo, señalando sus libros-. Las palabras. César y Pompeyo tienen soldados; Craso, dinero; Clodio, los matones de la calle. Mis legiones son mis palabras. Gracias a ellas he llegado donde estoy, y gracias a ellas sobreviviré.

Often the most powerful men in a state can pass down a street unrecognized, while the most famous bask in feted impotence

Go and do your business, Mr Nayler. There will soon be heads on spikes all over London. But bear in mind that one day one of them may be mine.

Die Unfehlbarkeit des Papstes gilt für die Glaubenslehre. Nicht für die Ernennungen." [von Kardinälen]

Caesar is a different category of man altogether. Pompey merely wants to rule the world. Caesar longs to smash it to pieces and remake it in his own image.

So Church and state should be separate?' 'It would be best for both.' 'Then surely we would arrive at a place where the Church would have morals without power, and the state would have power without morality. That is exactly what led the ancients to disaster.

Do you honestly think we would have left something so important to the Italians?

He remembered a line of graffiti scrawled by White Rose on a wall near Werderscher Markt: 'A police state is a country run by criminals'.

Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels

Soldier, shut up and Soldier

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Law, lastly, stands between politics and morality.

A huge body of research—hundreds of studies—shows that when people are put in positions of power, they start talking more, taking what they want for themselves, ignoring what other people say or want, ignoring how less powerful people react to their behavior, acting more rudely, and generally treating any situation or person as a means for satisfying their own needs—and that being put in positions of power blinds them to the fact that they are acting like jerks.

both are key components of what is commonly referred to as classroom management (Marzano et al., 2003). A case can be made that if strategies for these two elements are not in place, a teacher will have little control of the classroom.

I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army! --Mat Cauthon

Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.

Burn you, Nerim, that's a leg not a bloody side of beef! As my lord says, Nerim murmured. My lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my lord, for instructing me.

A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.

If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.

When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.

The more power a man held, the more likely he was to be an idiot with it.

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.