Quotes About Authority

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

Intuition he did not reject. He knew that it is part of our equipment, and the sensitiveness he valued in himself and in others is connected with it. But he also knew that it can make dancing dervishes of us all, and that the man who believes a thing is true because he feels it in his bones, is not really very far removed from the man who believes it on the authority of a policeman's truncheon.

Agamemnon heaved the gusty sigh of one much put upon by the weight of office, the malice of chance, and the endless incompetence of underlings.

Humanists do not claim to know, we just ask you to be very wary of those who do claim to know. Who told them? What does their knowledge mean? Why should you trust them? Above all, don't take my word for it either. Don't take anyone's word for it. Find out for yourselves.

Dealing with cops is like being around a skittish horse: No sudden movements, nothing shiny or loud. Zero jokes.

Tapi kita selalu bisa mempertanyakan kompetensi orang yang melakukan pengamatan.

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.

You lie well, and I appreciate the effort it takes. It's not so easy, as any commissar knows.

Scientific questions cannot be decided by majority vote in any case.

Mister, we deal in lead.

He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

Words had a way of creating their own imperatives.

You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. I'm going to kill you. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand your rights as I have explained them to you?

Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.

No community is easier to govern than one that rejects the very concept of community.

he sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls...

She's the Queen Bitch of Castle Hell. If you mess with her, she'll eat you alive.

the powers that be have a way of outlawing many beautiful things made by ordinary people. I don't know why that should be, I only know it is.

One of the few things my father says when he's had a few that I agree with is that kids don't have much balls in this generation. Some of them are trying to start the revolution by bombing U.S. government washrooms, but none of them are throwing Molotov cocktails at the Pentagon.