Quotes About Authority

We have pretty much all the facets of our business under our control now. Relying on someone else to do the right thing, you're just setting yourself up to get screwed. We control our own destiny and it's a really good feeling.

I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing.

Reflecting on the past, where the film industry became united with 'national interest' and 'national policy,' I tend to think that keeping a clear distance from government authority is the right thing to do.

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

Keep the masses fed and entertain them to keep them in line.

The show is not so clean cut in terms of good and bad. That is the theme that runs through the show. Loki is taking down the TVA, but is it the right decision?

you know you're important when an entire board of directors gives you the boot.

A man must first govern himself ere he be fit to govern a family. —SIR WALTER RALEIGH

All rise! The Honorable John Bestover White presiding.

You'll never escape the panopticon thinking like that.

I shook my head. "No, I mean Animal Farm. You know: 'Some animals are more equal than other animals.

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.

The more totalitarian a regime's nature, the more it will try to force people to forget their cultural memories. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the role of Winston Smith within the Ministry of Information is to erase all newspaper records of past events to reflect the current political priorities of the Party. This, said the ex-communist Polish intellectual Leszek Ko?akowski, reflects "the great ambition of totalitarianism—the total possession and control of human memory.

Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. THE PARTY SLOGAN, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

A person cut off from history is a person who is almost powerless against power.

Arendt said of some writers who glorified the will to power,

The truth has power to end every tyranny.

res publica, literally 'the thing belonging to the people', and the origin of the modern term republic.

In the absence of the principle of hereditary rule

the only other force that might have exerted a compelling authority over a polis would have been religion.

fortifications bear witness to the power of the rulers to command the labour of many thousands of men.

to become the most powerful state in the region.

They found themselves up against the new satraps sent to the region by the victorious Artaxerxes.

Order was not restored until the emperor and four of his five sons had been apprehended and their severed heads displayed to the crowd in the Hippodrome