Quotes About Authority

When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile.

That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.

The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes narrowed while the prison keeper's widened.

In all countries, most of the time, official spokesman and official liar are the same thing!

When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.

It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back!

To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the host of the party.

If you want to be popular all the time, you will misgovern

We're kept scrambling so much that we don't have time to really study and analyze and understand the way that power really works in this country.

Historically, when a leader has deployed his own military against civilians, it's never been good. There's never been a time where it's ended well.

Laws are the DNA of government. They must evolve with time.

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater.

NOTICE 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

she makes me wash, they make me comb all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed... the widder [widow] eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she wakes up by a bell-everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it

The world is made wrong; kings should go to school to their own laws, at times, and so learn mercy.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.

Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.