Quotes About Authority

When a donkey brays from the dais, the hired asses raise slogan in his name from the ground.

It's all about murder, money and power. The motto is – Kill: Be Respected.

Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?

What serious airs the rascal puts on! Look! His legs are already shrieking "oh! oh!" They are asking for shackles and wedges.

Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!

Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil! Lysistrata: If that's all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business.

Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

They should rule who are able to rule best.

But if safety be their common concern, the good of the governors must correspond with the good of the governed, and the interest of the servant must coincide with the interest of the master.

Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

The wise man must not be ordered but must order, and he must not obey another, but the less wise must obey him.

In the work of government, reason is the architect; it is the part of reason to command, and the duty of weakness and of passion to obey.

Magistrates rule by an established rotation; kings reign for life.

It is not to avoid cold or hunger that tyrants cover themselves with blood; and states decree the most illustrious rewards, not to him who catches a thief, but to him who kills an usurper.

Communities could not subsist without foresight to discern, as well as exertion to effectuate the measures requisite for their safety. Men capable of discerning those measures, are made for authority; and men merely capable of effectuating them by bodily labor, are made for obedience.

Kings ought to differ from their subjects, not in kind, but in perfection.

It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.

Paraphrased for brevity: Those who think a HERILE government is the same as a regal government or that of a large family or of a city are mistaken.

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

think they overregulate the bottom because it's harder to regulate the top.

I think they overregulate the bottom because it's harder to regulate the top.

When the growing individual finds that he is destined to remain a child for ever, that he can never do without protection against strange superior powers, he lends those powers the features belonging to the figure of his father." Thus, God is often depicted as someone to be feared as well as loved.