Quotes About Authority

She said, A king is the best and worst of men. Of course. Of course.

He stared at me like he wanted to shoot me. It happens to some young men when you give them a uniform.

will probably fall apart while they try to decide who's going to care of business in his absence.

The basis of any attempt to take over the world is always going to be a philosophy, and the philosophy in this case is one that has been around for centuries. It's based on the idea that the majority of the people are simply too stupid to know what's good for them, so they need a government that's going to make those decisions on their behalf. As long as there are politicians being voted into office, this philosophy is not going to die out.

We live in time where more and more countries are governed not by governments, but by men. Like in old times. And if you are not crazy when you take the throne, you will for sure be crazy if, after ten years, you have not left! Because personal political power make you crazy!

Dialogue with an AK47 always ends the same way. The AK47 is always right.

Students seemed to be willing to behave better and pay more attention when there was somebody in the room who could kick their butts. In classes with younger children, corporal punishment was reinstated, because even though Americans had started thinking that spanking a kid was some kind of child abuse, many other countries knew better. Their kids still got spanked, and their crime rates were a lot lower than ours.

I showed her a plastic card that said I was with the Pentagon's Office of the Director of Intelligence which was true in an abstract sense; like Picasso's people with both eyes on the same side of their face.

As for power, the man who has it is as much its slave as its master. The use of that power imposes obligations upon the one who uses it,

I don't know if you are much of a student of history, Mr. Prichard, but the most terrible tyrants have always been those who thought they were leading their people into some kind of paradise.

Each forbidden cigarette, each safety belt fastened, each crash helmet worn, each blasphemy law enacted, is a landmark on the road to Dystopia.

Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)

acceptance and approval are powers held by others,

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

The truth is, I didn't think wind farms were an effective means of alternative energy so I said so. Back then, at the BBC you had to toe the line and I wasn't doing that.

Public schoolboys are not merely conservatives, they are by nature totalitarian reactionaries.

Work with what you have control of and you'll have your hands full.

The Self is the ultimate authority and our only true support.

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected--those, precisely, who need the law's protection most!--and listens to their testimony.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

What is a law, if those who make it Become the forwardest to break it?

Caning was a way of life at the school, and the boy, Sting and myself, even at an early age, had our fair share of thrashings.

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.