Quotes About Authority

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

Law obviously existed because of a desire to lessen the quantum of suffering in a society. And yet law could only be said to exist where its enforcers had the power and will to inflict harm. Law, then, was not the setting of good against evil; it merely authorized the use of some kinds of evil to combat others. Moreover, Austin's theory located the law's authority in the

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens.

He [Woodrow Wilson] could write Notes from Sinai or Olympus; he could remain unapproachable in the White House or even in the Council of Ten and be safe. But if he once stepped down to the intimate equality of the Four, the game was evidently up.

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

La libertad y la democracia vienen a significar lo que el sistema requiera

Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires."

A few times I saw a chicken walking around importantly, like some kind of a regional manager.

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

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We also have ferries, known on the island as "the fast boat" and "the slow boat." The slow boat is operated by the Steamship Authority and is the only way to bring a vehicle. If you want to bring your vehicle to Nantucket, you must get a reservation (and these sell out way in advance, starting in early January!).

As long as a single center has a monopoly on the use of coercion, one has a state rather than a self-governed society.

Like all domestic tyrants, he was shamelessly deceived and "managed" by the women of his establishment.

I replied, 'I do not think as you do.' 'Child, you are not born to think; you were not made to think.

A letter, Sir, cannot waft down your draw-bridges; the spirit of my affection breathed therein cannot disenchant her from the all-powerful spell of your authority. No. And you surely will not forbid an indulgence so endearing to us, while unimportant to yourself.

Oh teach me your art to soften his power, to unloose the grasp of his authority, and I will love you as——I believe I cannot love you better than I do; for have you not cast a ray of cheering light upon my dungeon?—Have you not bestowed upon me the only charm of existence that I have known for many and many a tedious day?

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man!

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.

I will make you shorter by the head.

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