Quotes About Authority

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country, because our parents are our first oppressors.

If aliens are watching us through telescopes, they're going to think the dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge?

Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge.

The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge.

Pat Boone still didn't cover public cunt-licks in Tips for Teens , and there really wasn't anybody to ask.

The suspicion of authority was intrinsic to the post-1960s political left: to rely upon the judgment of experts was to surrender to the prejudices of established elites. Thus, the left had its reasons for advancing an agenda that professed to make institutions accountable and transparent, using the purportedly objective and scientific standards of measured performance.

Don't leave your teen with the choice between obediently toeing the line or acting like a lunatic to exert some level of control over life.

The judges are doing what I am telling them to do, simply because I understand better than they do this one thing: the absurd lengths to which human beings go to prove themselves reasonable.

If they make you put on a suit, it's because they are going to do something horrible to you. I guarantee it.

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

Desire is the only justification for obedience.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

Love'? What do you know about love?" "It's at the heart of every story," Rollo said with authority. "If humans could avoid falling in love, you would never get yourselves into any trouble.

Now I could stand easily in my pure, white dress and smile while King Caxel glared away.

The reason men rule is because women let them.

It's not words that fail, it's the people who wield them. We have no power over life and death, we are subject to pain and disease and misery, but we command words. When you think about it, words are all we really have.

He is commanded to be strong, with his only equipment the Word of God and implicit obedience to it! Such was Christ's equipment.

Non esiste né bene né male se non c'è la libertà di disobbedire.

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.