Quotes About Authority

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.

They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No body will be argued into slavery.6

a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.… The state is considered the sole source of the 'right' to use violence.

there was much to amuse her. Secretly she gloated upon her power over this most fearsome monarch....

Some folk have to react against something: parents, siblings, government, society. They think they have free will, when all they doing is wilfully opposing.

the force of her presence had the effect of diminishing everyone else's

también era leal, claro, pero como un capitán ante el general. Troy, como un soldado.

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

If children of 5 are not taught to obey orders, sit still for 7 hours a day, respect their teacher, and raise their hands when they have to go to the bathroom, how will they learn (after 17 more years of education) to become the respectful clerks, technicians and soldiers who keep our society free, our economy strong, and such inspiring men as Richard Nixon and Deane Davis in political office.

I was in charge, but I made logic the boss.

Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

The river that everything drags is known as violent, but nobody calls violent the margins that arrest him.

THE POLICEMAN: I'm a policeman. I'm paid by those in charge to combat dissatisfaction.

La verità è figlia del tempo e non dell'autorità.

NEPHEW: One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

La ley se ha hecho pura y exclusivamente para explotar a aquellos que no la entienden, o a quienes la miseria impide respetarla. Y quien quiera obtener su mendrugo de esa explotación, debe atenerse estrictamente a la ley.

it doesn't matter what professors Or smart-alecks think; all that counts is how the little Man sees his master. Basta.

Nu ar fi mai simplu pentru guvern sa dizolve poporul si sa aleaga altul?