Quotes About Authority

Subsequent revolutions have in like manner regarded the Church as Public Enemy number 1, precisely because it creates a realm of value and authority outside the reach of the state. It

Government is not what so many conservatives believe it to be, and what people on the left always believe it to be when it is in other hands than their own – namely a system of power and domination.

When the Communist Party took over Eastern Europe, its first work was to destroy the civil associations that it did not control.

The Abbé Sieyès, in his inflammatory pamphlet, What is the Third Estate? of 1789, expressed the point succinctly. 'The nation is prior to everything. It is the source of everything. Its will is always legal … The manner in which a nation exercises its will does not matter; the point is that it does exercise it; any procedure is adequate, and its will is always the supreme law.' Twenty

Warfare is now an interlocking system of actions—political, economic, psychological, military—that aims at the overthrow of the established authority in a country and its replacement by another regime.

Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to do anything I cannot be stopped from doing. Which sometimes entails not getting caught at it. This is not quite so bad as it sounds, as I am a decent, civilized, likable guy. So, shading my eyes against the blue and fiery afternoon, I began searching for ways to convince the authorities of this. Lying, I decided, was probably best.

Power is like money... You can usually get it if you're competent and it's the only thing you want in life.

What an enormous chutzpah you possess, I told him. What makes you better than the rest of us, and more fit to rule? The fact that I was able to occupy the throne, he replied. Try and take it.

Now you know what an absolute monarchy is she explained to Bill. You can see how power corrupts. I was corrupt before I had power, Random said, and rich is better.

This is because one can never be sure whether wisdom produces or merely locates, and the Prince is wise.

Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to do anything I cannot be stopped from doing. Which sometimes entails not getting caught at it

I think he knows exactly what he is doing, and whether we like it or not, I think he is the only one who can deal with the present situation.

I almost forgot to tell you - you have the right to remain silent, but if you do, my boys at the station will process your bones to help you confess.

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, age-old pastime of humanity.

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.

Robar a un hombre su lenguaje en nombre del propio lenguaje: todos los crímenes legales comienzan así.

What is a hero? The one who has the last word. Can we think of a hero who does not speak before dying?

Lorsque aucune langue connue n'est à votre disposition, il faut bien se résoudre à voler un langage - comme on volait autrefois un pain. Tous ceux - légion - qui sont hors du Pouvoir, sont contraints au vol de langage.

Voler son langage à un homme au non même du langage, tous les meurtres légaux commencent par là.

What is a hero? The one who has the last word.

Amour au bandeau: Ce proverbe est faux. L'amour ouvre grand les yeux, il rend clairvoyant:J'ai, de toi, sur toi, le savoir absolu. Rapport du clerc au maître; tu a tout pouvoir sur moi, mais j'ai tout savoir sur toi.

What relation can I have with a system of power if I am neither its slave nor its accomplice nor its witness?

Amour au bandeau: Ce proverbe est faux. L'amour ouvre grand les yeux, il rend clairvoyant:J'ai, de toi, sur toi, le savoir absolu. Rapport du clerc au maître; tu as tout pouvoir sur moi, mais j'ai tout savoir sur toi.

In "the general course of things, the popular views and even prejudices will direct the action of the rulers.