Quotes About Authority

Egy kicsit ügyes ember könnyebben lesz miniszter, mint irodafÅ'nök. Rá kell erÅ'szakolni magadat az emberekre, nem pedig kunyerálni nekik.

But a lie that can no longer be challenged becomes insane.

We still have some time to take advantage of the fact that radio and television stations are not yet guarded by the army.

The dominion of the concentrated spectacle is a police state.

A lie that can no longer be challenged becomes insane.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim.

The pleasures of existence have recently been redefined in an authoritarian way - first in their priorities and then in their entire substance. And the authorities who redefined them could just as well decide at any moment, untroubled by other consideration, which modification might be most lucratively introduced into the techniques of their manufacture, entirely liberated from any need to play

there is no final inner cabal, no capo di tutti capi (boss of all bosses) pulling the strings: the final instance 'calling the shots' (often literally) is the market economy itself.

If you are a guru or an expert, people will know it. If you aren't one, no one is going to believe you. In

One look at Scott was enough to tell you that the twig between his legs hadn't had its bark peeled back in a coon's age. Mr. Secretary ought to read Surgeon Kittson's annual

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

O pior governo é o mais moral. Um governo composto de cínicos é frequentemente mais tolerante e humano. Mas, quando os fanáticos tomam o poder, não há limite para a opressão

Do you still tell me that I have power over the waves? Oh! foolish men, do you not know that to God alone belongs such power? He alone rules earth and sky and sea, and we and they alike are His subjects, and must obey Him. The

The Great Charter was sealed with the King's seal.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.

Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right.

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

The Catholics get rid of the difficulty by setting up an infallible Pope, and consenting formally to accept his verdicts, but the Protestants simply chase their own tails. By depriving revelation of all force and authority, they rob their so-called religion of every dignity. It becomes, in their hands, a mere romantic imposture, unsatisfying to the pious and unconvincing to the judicious.

People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.

One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious character.

His condition had plainly improved. Once a slave , he was now only a serf. Once condemned to silence, he was now free to criticize his masters, and even to flout them, and the ordinances of God with them..