Quotes About Authority

The moment we give in, no machine in the world can help us. But as long as we do not lose the feeling that calls out to every valiant man, 'You are born to rule,' we shall always know how to create the best instruments of power of our time.

Economic absurdities are produced only when power is at stake.

Every master has the servant he deserves.

El poder auténtico se reconoce en la protección que dispensa.

The word is both king and conjurer.

I mention my indifference because it illuminates the gap between positions. 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.

We too aspire to communism as the most perfect achievement of human solidarity, but it must be anarchist communism, that is, freely desired and accepted, and the means by which the freedom of everyone is guaranteed and can expand; for these reasons we maintain that State communism, which is authoritarian and imposed, is the most hateful tyranny that has ever afflicted, tormented and handicapped mankind.

Governments oppress mankind in two ways, either directly, by brute force, that is physical violence, or indirectly, by depriving them of the means of subsistence and thus reducing them to helplessness at discretion.

For those who govern find it necessary to occupy themselves with things which they do not understand, and, above all, to waste the greater part of their energy in keeping themselves in power, striving to satisfy their friends, holding the discontented in check, and mastering the rebellious.

Con l'odio, se si vince, si possono fondare nuovi governi, ma non si può fondare l'anarchia.

L'uomo non è perfetto, d'accordo. Ma questo non è che una ragione di più, forse la ragione migliore, per non dare a nessuno i mezzi per «mettere i freni alla libertà individuale».

In realtà nessuno potrebbe istituire la dittatura rivoluzionaria se prima il popolo non avesse fatta la rivoluzione, mostrando così a fatti la sua capacità di farla; ed allora la dittatura non farebbe che sovrapporsi alla rivoluzione, sviarla, soffocarla ed ucciderla.

Il farsi mettere il freno nella speranza di essere meglio guidati non può condurre che alla schiavitù.

Although the federal and state governments rarely can be sued because they are protected by sovereign immunity,47 the Supreme Court has held that local governments—cities and counties—do not have sovereign immunity.48

As long as an officer has "reasonable suspicion" that the person has committed or might commit a crime, there can be a stop. And as long as an officer has "reasonable suspicion" that the person might have a weapon, there can be a frisk.

Second, where sheriffs and constables had been under local judicial authority, the police were placed under cities' executive authority.

Misuse of power, possessed by virtue of state law and made possible only because the wrongdoer is clothed with the authority of state law, is action taken 'under color of' state law."19

In every case since then, without exception, the Court has rejected people's ability to sue federal officers.

Schneckloth v. Bustamonte is important on many levels. First, it dramatically empowers police to be able to search. It obviates the need for police to meet all the requirements of the Fourth Amendment, such as the need for probable cause (or at least reasonable suspicion) and the need for a warrant. It is estimated that consent searches comprise over 90 percent of all warrantless searches.

The actual motivation of the officers is irrelevant.18 As long as an officer has probable cause, or even reasonable suspicion, that a traffic law has been violated, he or she may stop the vehicle.

Once police pull the car over, they can order the driver and the passenger out of the car.19 They can then search the passenger area of the car, including all containers within it.20 This is to protect the officers, the Court explained, to ensure that the car contains no weapon that an individual might reach for.

Turn it," Thomas said, without smiling. "Play it again.

But Miguel is the last Argoso and I intend to raise him under my roof, with my values, and, yes, even my prejudices and perhaps some of my vices. That's my prerogative, you see, as the patriarch of this family.

She'd worried at the beginning when she first met them that there were too many patrones. But within weeks she was sure that there was really one boss, and that the other three were working for her.