Quotes About Authority

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people revert to a mob.

Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?

All governments need to remain under suspicion in their time of power.

Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things…." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing…." She closed her fingers into a fist. "…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They re-create the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well. —LETO II, HIS VOICE, FROM DAR-ES-BALAT

What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Celui qui gouverne doit apprendre à convaincre et non à obliger.

Tone of voice and attitude alone can subjugate another's will.

Não se pode fundamentar a política no amor. As pessoas não se interessam pelo amor: é desordenado demais. Elas preferem o despotismo. O excesso de liberdade engendra o caos. Não podemos permitir isso, podemos? E como transformar o despotismo em algo que se possa amar?

You can't build politics on love," he said. "People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos. We can't have that, can we? And how do you make despotism lovable?

We know that one: 'Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.' Wrong, Dama. Something more subtle but far more pervasive: Power attracts the corruptible.

O ponto de vista dos céticos. E o soberanos são sabidamente céticos no que toca a religião. A religião também é uma arma. E que tipo de arma seria a religião quando elas se torna o governo?

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said.

Como todos os sacerdotes, vocês logo aprenderam a chamar a verdade de heresia. Cinismo! Sem dúvida alguma, deve ser um crime pior que a heresia.

Como todos los sacerdotes, aprendiste muy pronto a llamar herejía a la verdad.

She asked me to tell her what it is to rule. And I said that one commands. And she said I had some unlearning to do.

The Emerald City has been ruled by men long enough

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.

Then he placed on my tongue the wafer, the body and blood of Jesus. At last, at last. It's on my tongue. I draw it back. It stuck. I had God glued to the roof of my mouth. I could hear the master's voice, Don't let that host touch your teeth for if you bite God in two you'll roast in hell for eternity. I tried to get God down with my tongue but the priest hissed at me, Stop that clucking and get back to your seat.

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

That's a name for gangsters and politicians.

That's the main job of cops in New York, telling everyone move back.

I take his weapons away from him. Both of them.

You don't get it son. This isn't a mudhole, it's an operating table and I am the surgeon. -Batman