Quotes About Authority

Inside ever anarchist is a failed dictator

Era aquello un nido, una hechura de políticos, de periodistas, de tribunos, de agitadores, de ministros, y daba gusto ver con cuánto donaire rompían el cascarón los traviesos polluelos.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Give me control over a man's economic actions, and hence over his means of survival, and except for a few occasional heroes, I'll promise to deliver to you men who think and write and behave as I want them to.

Denunciarle a quién? A lo mejor no se ha enterado usted...; no se denuncia a un cura. El clero es intocable. ¿No se lo ha dicho nadie? —¿Ni siquiera cuando es un cáncer para la comunidad? Radford suspiró. —Lo más que habría conseguido —dijo— habría sido que lo trasladaran. Es lo que hace siempre la Iglesia cuando uno de los suyos se mete en líos. Y habría continuado haciendo lo mismo en otra parte.

The years at Carricklea had left him with a lurking fear of all appointed figures of authority that no subsequent accumulation of authority of his own could rid him of.

He hauled in Michelangelo, commanding the aged maestro to make the naked figures in The Last Judgment "suitable" for the papal chapel. Michelangelo hotly replied: "Let His Holiness make the world a more suitable place, and then the painting will follow suit." That was the last time Buonarroti had anything to do with Carafa.

This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.

If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.

Be just, I would always recommend to the men in power. Be just whatever happens, because, if you cannot govern with justice, even with injustice you would not govern for long.

It is a great vice for any constitution to leave to powerful men no alternative between their own power and the scaffold.

Of all political curses the most terrible is an assembly that is but the instrument of a single man.

Sovereignty has only a limited and relative existence. At the point where independence and individual existence begin, the jurisdiction of sovereignty ends.

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery

An obedient wife commands her husband.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

England is governed not by logic but by parliament.

Political institutions, founded on abstract rights and principles, are mere nullities.

In all things we trace the irresistible influence of the individual.