Quotes About Authority

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

M: ... but everytime I start in everytime I everytime you see I would have to tell the whole story all over again or else lie so I lie I just lie who are they who are the storytellers who can put an end to stories

You know who I am. You know my naked power.

I love my country but hate the government and see no one, no one who can lead us.

the Orthodox Church has quietly used its authority to prevent "nontraditional" communities

a promising political career, which requires unquestioning adherence to Putin's policies.

Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed from that moment. MATTHEW 17:18

Having right over others is something shameful. It's using force.

The more powerful the group to which we belong, the less likely, generally, we are to question the system that legitimises and confers these privileges.

She thought back to what Roman had said. That the power rested in her lap. The problem was that internalizing that revelation also meant decisions could no longer be pushed aside.

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.

The reason why I believe Ethel's story is as important today as ever is to realize what can happen when fear, a forceful and blunt weapon in the hands of authority, turns to hysteria and justice is willfully ignored.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge enters the mind of the child.

That was the point where she was supposed to sound tough, like she was someone to be reckoned with, like she was the sort of person witches should listen to. Was this really her plan? She sounded like a child.

What? You don't want any boiled beef tongue? Ha-ha. Eat the fucking tongue. We are the parents, they said, and you are the child.

The truth of Voltaire's observation offers itself perpetually," he told Bellini, that every man in Europe "must be either the hammer or the anvil.

I CAN'T HEAR YOU, BUT YOU'D BETTER GET OVER HERE RIGHT NOW OR YOU'LL BE SORRY.

Ils se sentaient toutefois le droit de faire la leçon aux imprévoyants ou de menacer l'enfant que sa mère envoyait exprès aux courses à sa place en fin de semaine, sans argent : « Dis à ta mère qu'elle tâche de me payer, sinon je ne la servirai plus. » Ils ne sont plus ici du bord le plus humilié.

Issues of power, control, energy fuels, and political strength have become key themes in our current events. We have come a long way from iron spearheads to nuclear warheads, yet the disease of power used for control and domination has remained.

Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break

When E. F. Hutton talks, people listen.

Thus ever to tyrants.

Divide and rule.