Quotes About Authority

but pulling the trigger on that high-riding bitch

It was good to have subordinates who didn't need their t's crossed and the i's dotted . p.173

Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.

The great are eternally at the mercy of tiny men. And also, tiny madwomen.

I don't want to take the women into the city until I know how things stand.' ' I'll tell you precisely how they stand,' Nicolo bitterly replied. 'The absolute ruler of this city is a Medici. The Pope is a Medici. People round here say that probably God is a Medici and as for the Devil, he's definitely one, beyond any doubt.

Burn the books and trust the Book; shred the papers and hear the Word.

Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.

Impossible stories, stories with No Entry signs on them, change our lives, and our minds, as often as the authorized versions, the stories we are expected to trust, upon which we are asked, or told, to build our judgements, and our lives.

It isn't right for the artist to become the servant of the state.

This was my mother's chosen disciplinary method: unable to strike us, she ordered us to seal our lips. Some echo, no doubt, of the great silence with which her own mother had tormented Aadam Aziz lingered in her ears—because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound—and with an emphatic "Chup!" she would place a finger across her lips and command our tongues to be still.

Now the only person you think is lying to you is the expert who actually knows something. He's the one not to believe because he's the elite and the elites are against the people

The machine of state bearing down upon its enemies.

Do not make the mistake, it said, speaking perfect English, of equating size with power. Or you might find a cricket squashing you under its thumb.

A camera requires law, order, the thin blue line.

Putting both your hands in your pockets was against the rules. So was 'running in the corridors'. However, fagging – acting as an older boy's unpaid servant – and beating were still permitted. Corporal punishment could be administered by the housemaster or even by the boy named as Head of House.

Beware, the light seemed to say, for I come to burn and judge.

But the city in its corruption refused to submit to the dominion of the cartographers

When the sword of the tongue is drawn, the emperor thought, it inflicts deeper cuts than the sharpest blade.

Then how unconfident of Itself this Deity was, Who didn't want Its finest creations to know right from wrong; and Who reigned by terror, insisting upon the unqualified submission of even Its closest associates, packing off all dissidents to Its blazing Siberias, the gulag-infernos of Hell ...

Here's a great lie, thinks the Grandee of Jahilia drifting into sleep: the pen is mightier than the sword.

No dominion is everlasting.

But what I learned from the Widow's Hand is that whose who would be gods fear no one so much as other potential deities

un país donde la verdad es lo que se le dice que sea, la realidad, de forma absolutamente literal, deja de existir, de forma que todo resulta posible salvo lo que se nos dice que es real;

Dogma in science really is humiliating when it is recognized as dogma.