Quotes About Authority

He [the Emperor] is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.

Why be a king,when you can be a god?

fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead, it's never been said, but I said precedents.

fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead, it's never been said, but I set precedents.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

The keynote of government is injustice.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Big Brother really is everywhere.

But admiration is not love. Love wants proximity, reciprocity, the acceptance of vulnerability. Love alone does not say what we spend our lives saying, all the time, to everyone: 'I am worth more than you.' Love has other ways of finding reassurance, another authority that doesn't come from above but below.

The highway cop said, "Walk a straight line." I said, "Well, Officer Pythagoras, the closest you could ever come to achieving a straight line would be making an electroencephalogram of your own brain waves." He said, "You're under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. Do you wish to retain that right?" I thought, "Oooh, a paradox!"

Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

Cuando M. Weber define el poder político como «dominación legítima ante obedientes», rechaza toda posible coherencia entre ética y política; las transforma en un maquiavelismo vulgar.

Como dice Julián Marías, el ser humano necesita una «jerarquía de verdades» que cree el subsuelo en el que se asientan las ideas, creencias y opiniones fundadas en la autoridad, las «opiniones contrastadas» que vamos recibiendo y esa sabiduría especial y honda que constituye la experiencia de la vida.

un vaticinio tiene más autoridad que un comentario.

Cuando alguien ejerce un poder sin límites, no vacila en emplear toda la fuerza del Estado