Quotes About Authority

Every time we went to kourt the judge made a point of reading into the record that i had refused to stand up for him. He was one of those racist white dogs who really believed he was massa.

They refused to let him examine me unless a white doctor, hired by the state, was present, and for the report to the judge, the white doctor had to examine me.

Every day there were three shifts of police. When they changed shifts, the two troopers would salute the sergeant. Some saluted an army salute, but others saluted like the nazis did in Germany. They held their hands in front of them and clicked their heels.

To avoid being manhandled, as soon as the judge said, "Remove the defendant from the courtroom," i would say, "The defendant will remove herself." Most of the time it worked, but one day the marshals were so gung ho they jumped on me and started brutalizing me in open kourt.

The defense team's headquarters, located in New Brunswick, was broken into, papers rummaged through and stolen, and the judge refused to investigate, calling the motion "frivolous.

when he returned, at 6 P.M. that day, i still hadn't seen the baby. He reminded them that i was supposed to breastfeed her. They told him he hadn't "written a prescription" for breastfeeding.

They had used the law to abuse the law.

Nobody is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.

The police photographer asks, "Don't you wanna give us a smile? Come on. Give us a smile.

renoncer à trois choses : l'amour de soi, la loi du père et la morale de la mère.

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

If people don't trust you, they will not follow your leadership.

You'll report nobody," says Kerrigan in a voice trembling with rage. "Up here we don't run to headquarters with our problems." "I know regulations. A noncom–" "We left regulations in the rear. They were too goddamned heavy to carry.

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

When your daddy walked through the house he was so big he filled it up. That was my first mistake. Not to make him leave room for me.

The dead govern the living.

La admiración es más fuerte que el poder. El carisma es más intenso que las presiones.

No pocos dictadores tienen tanto aprecio por las palabras como por las armas

sabiendo, como lo sabe por experiencia, que el principal enemigo de los poderosos, aunque oculto como todo lo falso y endeble, no es otro que su propio poder.

The words of power, of authority, words above words, will be transformed into clever, lying words. Words below words.

The man who chooses to act pro bono suo, thereby turning a rule that was right into a wrong. that man is to be deemed a tirant, the wise king said, who, using the progress, wellbeing, and prosperitie of those he governs as a praetext, replaces the cultus of his people by that of his owne person, becoming thereby a fereful and fallacious pelican. His diabolical cunning turns those very men he doth claim to liberate into slaves.

After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless "law" is equated with justice and "order" with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done.