Quotes About Authority

So who was doing the beating? The uniforms or those inside them? How was it that protests against police violence showed how violent police really were?

In the convent, she'd been taught to walk with eyes downcast. Now, Father Damien tipped his chin out and narrowed his gaze, focused straight ahead.

Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.

How was it that protests against police violence showed how violent police really were?

You said if they're assigned to Indian Country they are either rookies or have trouble with authority. Did

this knowledge—like love, sex, or having or not having a baby—has nothing to do with government.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.

If you've got plenty of nerve, you're all set, because then you're entitled to do practically anything at all, you've got the majority on your side, and it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't.

Children don't know the law. Their parents slap them to teach them the law and protect them from pleasure. There's

Wherever you may be, the moment you draw the attention of the authorities, the best thing you can do is disappear in a hurry.

the old geezer was eighty, he'd been horseback riding only last year ... now he had a different sport, he went down on all fours and the kids rode him ... giddyap, horsie! they whipped him with his riding whip! ... till the blood came! ... he loved it! ... all around his study! faster! faster! ... los! ... into the next room ... witches! witches! he yelled at them, with his bare old ass! ...

and it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't

I tell you, little man, life's fall guys, beaten, fleeced to the bone, sweated from time immemorial, I warn you, that when the princes of this world start loving you, it means they're going to grind you up into battle sausage...

La tyrannie sans risque, sans peine... Ce sont les ratés les plus rances qui décrètent le goût du jour !... Qui ne sait rien foutre, loupe toutes ses entreprises possède encore un merveilleux recours : Critique !... Trouvaille inouïe des temps modernes, plus aucun compte jamais à rendre. Critique ne relève que de son propre culot, de ses sales petites gardiens des plus fienteux égouts... Tout en ombres, baves, toxines, immondices, curées...

Je voudrais voir un peu Louis XIV avec un assuré social!...Il verrait si l'Etat c'est lui !..

it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't. Even

Louis XIV lui au moins, qu'on se souvienne, s'en foutait à tout rompre du bon peuple. Quant à Louis XV, du même. Il s'en barbouillait le pourtour anal.

Cuando tienes la cara bien dura, es bastante, entonces casi todo te está permitido, absolutamente todo, tienes a la mayoría de tu parte y la mayoría es quien decreta lo que es locura y lo que no lo es.

Gelukkig is het land dat door het paar van Caligula geregeerd wordt.

Sizi akl? ba??nda sanmalar?n?n en iyi yolu baya?? piÅŸkin olmakt?r. Ä°yiden iyiye piÅŸkinseniz mesele yok, o zaman hemen hemen ne yapsan?z yeridir, ne isterseniz, çoÄŸunluk sizden yanad?r ve kimin deli olup olmad???na karar veren de çoÄŸunluktur

I shall govern by affection.

There was a solid air about him as he walked through the pandemonium of the plant in his conservative gray suits. The thin veins on his massive cheeks were like the engraving on gilt-edged securities.

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

But what if the silence between commercials begins to whisper? What if he came to realize that his bosses, parents, and teachers, despite their prestige, know nothing?