Quotes About Authority

Did he just ask us to lie to a senior officer?" I asked. "Yup," said Leslie. "Just checking," I said. So we spent the rest of the afternoon bearing false witness in separate interview rooms.

Five hundred years ago the notoriously savvy Henry VIII discovered an elegant way to solve both his theological problems and his personal liquidity crisis —he dissolved the monasteries and nicked all their land.

I was just looking to ascertain the whereabouts of the proprietor when I stumbled across the Class A controlled substances that were in plain sight in the bottom drawer of a locked desk in an upstairs office, m'lord." Leave the police alone in a room for five minutes and we start looking in drawers, locked or otherwise. It's a terrible habit.

S? p?strez pacea Reginei. S? aduc ordine în haos.

was done fucking about in the shadows—it was time to get legal.

Words like that can cost a man his head.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

The first thing he thinks of is weaponry, killing his fellow humans. The second thing is power.

Whenever a religious movement has gained the reins of governmental power, individual liberties are strangled.

It is the duty of God's disciples to strike you dead

For a society based on the rule of law, the de facto reality that police officers are often treated as if they are above the law is repulsive.

They were all lawyers, all schooled in the authority of words, though as their words turned to dust a pall of impotence and futility settled over the mission.

Any society that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." Ben Franklin

Operation Claret proceeded with the sort of smoothness that suggested no one in authority was paying adequate attention.

When told to do something, he tended to "obey not the order which he had actually been given by a superior, but rather the order which that superior would have given if he had known what he was talking about.

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

Spelling a person's name is the first step toward killing him. It takes him apart and empties him of meaning. This is why God is afraid to have his name spelled.

Knowledge is many things, but it definitely is not power. "Dread" is a better word for it, I think, though I do understand how that ultimately fails as a slogan.

You still had to use the Balkanized, legacy banking system, which was built before the internet even existed, littered with middlemen and rent-seekers all along the way. And only if the central authorities of this network allowed it to happen, would your money move at a snail's pace from point A to point B.

If the Vatican has a say in it I wouldn't expect miracles.

and thus disqualified from continuing as chairman.

Hank must have been convincing, because Mudd and Syron didn't resist.

The president has substantial unilateral authority in trade, so political opposition may not prevent him from carrying through on some of his promises.

Guidance has less legal force than regulations,