Quotes About Authority

All power is from within and therefore under our control

In a jungle full of totalitarian monsters liberal democracy needs teeth.

Message of the Legalists: without law, power lost its shape.

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

Ivan showed that in his time and place the only antidote to chaos was absolutism.

democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can.

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Insult me all you want, you red-eyed son of the devil," Ernie roared in a very good imitation of Muhammad Ali. "We both know who wears the pants in my house, if I choose to wear pants at all. I have committed to nothing, and I am the king of my castle!" "You want to call me back after you call and get permission?" "You know it, brother.

She figured Nolasco wanted her there to call her out in front of Williams and Laub and otherwise run around the room pissing on chairs.

straightening to his full height. Intimidation

Que dit Keanu Reeves dans Portrait craché d'une famille modèle, déjà ? « Il vous faut un permis pour acheter un chien, il vous en faut un pour conduire une voiture. Nom de Dieu, même pour attraper un poisson, il vous faut un permis ! »

The Emperor Napoleon is said to have confronted Cardinal Consalvi, the secretary of state to Pope Pius VII, saying that he, Napoleon, would destroy the Church—to which the Cardinal deftly responded, "Oh my little man, you think you're going to succeed in accomplishing what centuries of priests and bishops have tried and failed to do?

the principle of subsidiarity, which stipulates that in matters political and economic there ought always to be a preferential option for the most local level of authority and operation.

Followers must have leaders, and this means that before much can be done with the church membership something will have to be done with the church officials.

How did you come to your crown, you and that black-faced pig beside you? Your fathers did the fighting and the suffering, and handed their crowns to you on golden platters. What you inherited without lifting a finger — except to poison a few brothers — I fought for. "You

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.

I can not trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.