Quotes About Authority

The mayor was also the local policeman, which meant that only one man needed to be bribed rather than two... The community was proud that he was their mayor and their policeman even though he had sold his neice to Pedro the Grocer for one hundred and twenty-two words.

Didn't the secret police know the exact aroma and chemical composition of every subversive fart in Greece?

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

There's a saying that when guns are outlawed, only the outlaws will have guns.

I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast.

No man is a complete ruler or dictator. He is only the mouthpiece for the wishes of his followers. As long as he expresses those wishes, he leads them.

It is a poor sort of man who is content to be spoon-fed knowledge that has been filtered through the canon of religious or political belief, and it is a poor sort of man who will permit others to dictate what he may or may not learn.

There is no greater role for a man to play than to assist in the government of a people, nor anyone lower than he who misuses that power.

Information is power.

the world has always needed is more heretics and less authority.

you stick your lunch-hooks into my corn bin without I say and you'll catch yourself a death of cold, because I'll open your belly with a shotgun.

Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

He'd better be one who keeps his eyes from the others or she'll have him over her knee.

They know that when a man holds a gun he more

Society is not taking revenge. It is simply eliminating someone who refuses to live by the rules.

You must remember, my friend, that if we leave the governing to others, then others will govern, and possibly not as we would like. In a country such as this, none of us is free of responsibility.

No. Until man can order his own affairs, until he ceases to prey on his brothers, he will need someone to maintain order. A lawman is not a restraint, but a freedom, a liberation. He restrains only those who would break the laws and provides freedom for the rest of us to work, to laugh, to sing, to play in peace.

Depuis la dernière guerre, la ruine de l'indépendance temporelle des musulmans est un fait accompli. L'empire ottoman est démembré et ses dirigeants ont réduit le calife turc à n'avoir plus d'autorité que sur le domaine spirituel. Ce grand événement n'est-il pas le signe que l'évangélisation des musulmans, si longtemps retardée, va pouvoir commencer ? (Écrits Mémorables I, p. 50)

All that can be expected from modern improvements is that legislation should easily and quickly, yet not too quickly, modify itself in accordance with the will of the de facto supreme power in the community

He's not my dad," Kaira said. "Just because he married my— As soon as I turn eighteen I'm firing his ass! Then I'll call you.

Now come to the front of the line where you belong.

They had never had a nice teacher. They were terribly afraid of nice teachers.