Quotes About Authority

Applied globally, political correctness obliges us to forswear sovereignty.

Under Big Government, the ruling class get power and perks,...but others among the ruled class just get unruly.

regard appeals to authority as somewhat unAmerican

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

Dialogue does a remarkable thing in restoring mind, that is, to rescue it from authority-systems and rigid beliefs.

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

Não era isto que eu queria de um subchefe. Se os cozinheiros não o respeitavam, eu dizer-lhes que o tipo os podia despedir não ia criar esse respeito.

A última coisa que o chefe quer num cozinheiro de linha é um inovador, alguém com ideias próprias que irá estragar as suas receitas ou as suas apresentações. Os chefes exigem cegueira, lealdade próxima do fanatismo, costas fortes e uma consistência de autómato para executar as tarefas dentro de uma situação de combate.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.

The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded.

That's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law.

To turn a decent young man into a piece of clockwork should not, surely, be seen as any triumph for any government, save one that boasts of its repressiveness.

It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you done, and there's no law nor order no more.

But when the social entity grows large, becomes a megalopolis, a state, a federation, then the governing machine grows remote, impersonal, even inhuman. It takes money from us for purposes we do not seem to sanction; it treats us as abstract statistics; it controls an army; it supports a police force whose function does not always appear to be protective.

The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it.

What's this for?' I said. And this veck replied, interrupting his like song an instant, that it was to keep my gulliver still and make me look at the screen. 'But,' I said, 'I want to look at the screen. I've been brought here to viddy films and viddy films I shall.

So we got hold of him and cracked him with a few good horrorshow tolchocks, but he still went on singing.

Power, power, everybody like wants power

They were like waking up to what was being done to their malenky persons and saying that they wanted to go home and like I was a wild beast. They looked like they had been in some big bitva, as indeed they had, and were all bruised and pouty. Well, if they would not go to school they must have there education. And education they had had.

But you could viddy a like gleam in his glazzies, because now he would be taking over for this nochy. Power power, everybody like wants power.

The millicents (The police) now got down to making this long statement for me to sign, and I thought to myself, Hell and blast you all, if all you bastards are on the side of the Good then I'm glad I belong to the other shop.

Nation-states can think in terms of megadeaths, but it's all the average person can do to harbor fantasies of murdering his own boss.