Quotes About Authority

To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of the public authority.

All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [...] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.

Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.

Traditionally people are on the side of the government all the time.

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.

It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

I don't know what this Liberty thing is all about, Rachel. None of us do, yet. I pray that if we ever achieve it, we will know how to control it. And not let it control us.

He looked up at her. Something passed between them. And I saw that he answered to her, too. But that he didn't answer to her authority, like the governor's, or her shrillness, like Aunt Hannah's, but to her gentleness.

Wherever Law Ends, Tyranny Begins"—John Locke.

This political line is wholly neo-Soviet: human beings do not have independent existences, they are cogs in the machine whose function is to implement unquestioningly whatever political escapades those in power dream up. Cogs have no rights. Not even to dignity in death.

Control is a nice concept, little more.

But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.

The only wonder was that he should be in an under situation and not in the place of a head coachman like York;

Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—even if that means a loss of freedom.

the reprehensible presumption of individuals who attempted to think for themselves in matters connected with religion, or to be guided by their own interpretations of Scripture

And indeed this was the best policy—for to submit and oblige was the governess's part, to consult their own pleasure was that of the pupils.

God Save the King

Little children, such as Anne, must never, ever correct their elders, no matter how many blunders they make or how often they let their imaginations run away with them.

Little children such as Anne must never, under any circumstances, know better than the grownups, however many blunders they make.

But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions?