Quotes About Authority

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." – George Washington How

In a heartfelt speech to Parliament in 1763, William Pitt declared: "The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement." Sir

The crime of seditious libel implies that the people are inferior to the state, and that their criticisms are unacceptable to their master. An

I am lord of Asia. Come to me, and you shall receive all that you can ask. But if you deny my right as your lord, stand and fight for your kingdom. I will seek you wherever you are.

Like many a man in authority, he was sublimely happy as long as he was presenting his ideas, and as long as his ideas were meeting with agreement.

and the force of public opinion, tiny though the public here may be, is a thing so violent violence is not needed to carry it.

Else what was happening was, I was going to be beaten up every time I was in town. It was English kept me from that. Some straggly farmhand might look at you and see the dark skin and the black hair and think that gave him a right to knock you down and kick you. No one saying boo to him for that. No sheriff or deputy neither.

If you can own nothing, he owned it.

The German Reich had to cease to be a state in order to become fully an instrument of conquest.

En qué consiste una revolución? Los expertos en Derecho político afirman lo siguiente: una revolución consiste en alterar una Constitución a través de medios no previstos por ella.

La población, en definitiva, debía acostumbrarse a vitorear y a ponerse en pie aunque no tuviese ningún motivo real para ello. A su vez, esto fue razón suficiente para que –¡psst!–, todos los días y todas las noches por medio de látigos de acero y taladros percutores se causara la muerte de quienes no participaban con bastante energía. Así que vitoreemos y ululemos con los lobos, heil, heil! Además se le acababa cogiendo el gusto.

What happened was a nightmarish reversal of normal circumstances: robbers and murderers acting as the police force, enjoying the full panoply of state power, their victims treated as criminals, proscribed and condemned to death in advance.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power

An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

She had power over him now, the way he'd had it over her for so many years.

proper marrying age, and I would not see her

No other person can have power over you or your destiny unless you decide to let him or her have it.

The present is the point of power.

For every rod of wet bamboo upon the student's back, the teacher deserves two.

The one thing people loved more than an outlaw was seeing him punished.

Men have enslaved each other since they invented gods to forgive them for doing it.