Quotes About Authority

It's only orders between us.

Muck everybody but the people and then be damned careful what they turn into when they have power.

How should a woman act when she discovers her husband is a bloody coward? She's damn cruel but they're all cruel. They govern, of course, and to govern one has to be cruel sometimes.

Let them all go to hell, except the people, and then, when they come to power, we must be dam cautious to see what they will become.

it is much easier to be the opposition to a government than to run the government yourself.

His father, who ran his life more disastrously than any man that he had ever know, gave marvelous advice. He distilled it out of the bitter mash of all his previous mistakes with the freshening additions of the new mistakes he was about to make and he gave it with an accuracy and precision that carried the authority of a man who had heard all the more grisly provisions of his sentence and gave it no more importance than he had given to the fine print on a transatlantic steamship ticket.

I didn't want to show it. Because if what he was saying was true, there wasn't a thing I could do about it. Marshall was too big. If it was just Bonbon who wanted to hurt Marcus, you might be able to prevent that. Bonbon was nothing but a poor white man, and sometimes you could go to the rich white man for help. But where did you go when it was the rich white man? You couldn't even go to the law, because he was the law. He was police, he was judge, he was jury.

who think of themselves as "spiritual rather than religious" tend to equate religion with belief, and therefore with doctrine and authority; with

Robert's Rules of Order becomes the guiding text rather than the pattern of the apostolic church.

We are called to fear only God. There is an important reason for this. What we fear is what we're subject to; our fears define our master. Where there is no fear, there is no control.

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

Es la dolencia de la tiranía el no confiar ni en los amigos.

Defining adultery is at once quite simple and quite complicated. Today, in the West, relationship ethics are no longer dictated by religious authority. The definition of infidelity no longer resides with the Pope, but with the people. This means more freedom, as well as more uncertainty. Couples must draw up their own terms.

visto che il Potere non permette che si preparino uomini che pensino agli uomini ma solo uomini che pensino al Potere, pensino soprattutto a difendere il Potere; lo Stato pensa a se stesso e pensa alla gente solo per quel tanto e nei modi che permettono al Potere di esserci e sopravvivere.

Se voglio dire che il disegno – costruzione di una cosa o oggetto o strumento – è fatto bene, è bello, certamente lo posso dire quando voglio... ma se non sono un potente non lo posso sostenere.

il Potere non permette che si preparino uomini che pensino agli uomini ma solo uomini che pensino al Potere, pensino soprattutto a difendere il Potere; lo Stato pensa a se stesso e pensa alla gente solo per quel tanto e nei modi che permettono al Potere di esserci e sopravvivere.

Politicians are either there or here or totally at home. Their finitude is more than sufficient unto itself. I don't mean to imply that I'm any better than they which does not mean that they are any better than I. Which doesn't mean anything at all.

All doctors are quacks. And all patients too. Only the Royal Navy is honest in England.

Marshall made his decision, now let him enforce it.

LOS REPORTEROS no trabajamos para ser queridos. Es nuestra responsabilidad hacer preguntas duras a los ricos y poderosos

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

It's always the voice of God they try to silence first.

If God listened to mothers," the rabbi responds severely, "we would all rot away in a bog of security and easy living.

Just dismissing them gave me a kind of power over them. That was the whole method of the con, even when I was conning myself. These