Quotes About Authority

Sospecho que todo aquel que haya querido a un drogadicto - y todo el que haya estado alguna vez enganchado a la droga - alberga en su interior el mismo impulso (...). Querrá destruir la adicción. Aniquilar esa dependencia. Asfixiarla con furia. Harry Anslinger no es sino una muestra de lo que sucede con nuestros impulsos mas escondidos cuando a uno se le da poder y licencia para matar.

If you worked in the civil service and you had a higher degree of control10 over your work, you were a lot less likely to become depressed or develop severe emotional distress than people working at the same pay level, with the same status, in the same office, as people with a lower degree of control over their work.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

I sit here like a monarch on his throne I've got my sceptre, but no crown to call my own -Mephistopheles

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

In limitations he first shows himself the master,And the law can only bring us freedom.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Law is mighty, mightier necessity.

It has been said that figures rule the world; maybe. I am quite sure that it is figures which show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

How many kings are governed by their ministers — how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief? He, as it seems to me, who can see through the others, and possesses strength or skill enough to make their power or passions subservient to the execution of his own designs. January

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.

Control your destiny or somebody will.

Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.