Quotes About Authority

but that's the beauty of boarding school. I make all my own decisions, small and medium, while the big ones are left up to the Prefect Academy - and as far as boys go, to the only expert I know - Suzanne Santry

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

Bastions of wealth are no deference for the man who treads the grand altar of Justice down and out of sight.

A tyrant's trust dishonors those who earn it.

Death is a softer thing by far than tyranny.

Zeus'tan baÅŸkas? özgür deÄŸildir.

Every thing has been achieved except for the gods to rule; for no one is free save Jupiter.

Persuasion is better than force.

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant

Servants don't know a good master till they have served a worse.

Don't smile," he said.

The people may change the constitutions whenever and however they please," explained Wilson. "It is a power paramount to every constitution, inalienable in its nature.

the people may undoubtedly change the government, not because it is ill exercised, but because they conceive another form will be more conducive to their welfare.

And the regulatory agencies are not stingy with their words either. Consider this: The Lord's Prayer contains 56 words; the Gettysburg Address, 266; the Ten Commandments, 297; the Declaration of Independence, 300; and a recent U.S. government order setting the price of cabbage, 26,911.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.

And what excuse was there for this? Nothing but the old line that parents and politicians will use before taking out their scalpels: I care about you, therefore I will upset you, I have honoured you with a vision of how you should be, therefore I will hurt you.

De door alcohol opgewekte gevechten die op zaterdagavonden in provincieplaatsen uitbreken zijn voorspelbare symptomen van onze verbolgenheid over deze vrijheidsberoving. Ze herinneren ons aan de prijs die we betalen voor onze dagelijkse onderwerping aan orde en beleid - en aan de woede die stilletjes aanzwelt achter een gezagsgetrouwe en inschikkelijke façade.

We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble.

The news had, for Flaubert, armed stupidity and given authority to fools.

We are marginally—but crucially—less likely to question the soundness of an article about a rationale for going to war when it comes presented beneath the neo-Gothic Cheltenham typeface of the New York Times, or to probe the coherence of a thesis defending a presidential budget when it is laid out in the sober yet sensuous columns of Le Monde's Fenway font. Brands alone dissuade us from picking sceptically at their underlying content.

the disciplined and sedated authority of the scientist entrusted with the safe management of unfeasible rage

I would have thought, said the prime minister, that Your Majesty was above literature. Above literature? said the Queen. Who is above literature? You might as well say one is above humanity.