Quotes About Authority

If you knew what I was going to do, why did you let me do it?" he demanded. Yellowfang turned her face away. "You can't stop me, can you?" Jaypaw felt a rush of delight, like a bird escaping grasping claws. "I have the power of the stars in my paws!

Whitepaw mewed. Leopardstar bit back

Thistleclaw practically had to sit on him to stop him.

Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so.

Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?" Wasn't there any change?

He is capable of any crime, from reviling the Classics to diverting water courses.

Everybody wants to rule the world.

Lila!" she said, wincing again. "Such language, honey! Your parents don't let you swear like that around them, do they?" Whoadie folded her arms. "Well, no, they didn't used to," she said. "But they both died in a hurricane when I was little, so now I get to say whatever the fuck I want.

Peu importaient les responsables au pouvoir, ils se contentaient de modifier l'agencement des transats sur le pont du Titanic, et personne ne se faisait d'illusions.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

No government could last more than a month without having to knock on the door of the banks in order to pay its current expenses. If the banks were to refuse, the government would go bankrupt.

When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered already broken.

If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for.

Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered.

The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand, has appropriated authority; he is sovereign. He therefore behaves as a neutral power vis-à-vis state and society. He may like, dislike, or be indifferent to whatever occurs in them. That is what determines his conduct; he invests no emotional values.

I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

The anarch, as I have expounded elsewhere, is the pendant to the monarch; he is as sovereign as the monarch, and also freer since he does not have to rule.

Die Sklaverei lässt sich bedeutend steigern, indem man ihr den Anschein der Freiheit gewährt.

It is not that I as an anarch reject authority à tout prix. On the other contrary, I seek it, and that is precisely why I reserve the right to examine it.

There are wolves hiding in the gray flock; characters who still know what freedom is. This is a ruler's worst nightmare.

It is infinitely more appealing to be a criminal than a bourgeois.

I could not bank on the phlegmatic Chinese; I would have to take care of it myself. This would be safer and also consistent with my own responsibility. The latter is the anarch's ultimate authority.