Quotes About Authority

I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish, because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios.

God crackles over the intercom and tells Mr. Freeman he's late for a faculty meeting.

It's like she thinks she's your mother or something.

Life was a battle, and Mother a tired and bitter captain. The captain I had to obey.

When ambitious men overcome a dynasty and seize power, they inevitably adopt most of the ways of their predecessors. —THE Muqaddimah OF IBN KHALDÛN

The police feared riot and disorder so much, it was ordered that any person caught looting would be shot on sight--with no suggestion as to how the soldier or policeman might tell if the person in his sights was a looter or a rightful home-owner. (Locked Rooms, chapter 8.)

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It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Government" Like a mafia protection racket-without the protection.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

When I went to the scientific doctor I realised what a lust there was in him to wreak his so-called science on me and reduce me to the level of a thing. So I said: Good-morning! and left him.

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heavens go.