Quotes About Authority

Govenment is founded on property Property is founded on conquest Conquest is founded on power All power is founded on brain and brawn.

Behind all Kings and Presidents all Government and Law, Are army-corps and cannoneers to hold the world in awe And sword-strong races own the earth and ride the Conqueror's Car And Liberty has ne'er been won, Except by deeds of war.

Statute books and golden rules were made to fetter slaves and fools.

Human rights and wrongs are not determined by Justice, but by Might. Disguise it as you may, the naked sword is still king-maker and king-breaker, as of yore. All other theories are lies and — lures

When given military control over a suba, the mansabdar was called a nazim or governor. If given financial control as well, he was something like a viceroy and called the subahdar.

Each sarkar contained a number of parganas or mahals, and there were several villages in every mahal or pargana. Most sarkars contained at least one town, where a kotwal was in charge of security.

Mehtab Singh, completely cowed, meekly did as he was told.' All 'swaggering about' in the Jullundur area apparently ended after this demonstration by Nicholson of British dominance over Indians

If one regiment mutinies, the next regiment [should be] so alien that it would be ready to fire into it.

the British would not permit a government 'whose authority is directly denied by large and powerful elements in India's national life

Nicholson never brooked the faintest show of insolence towards an officer of the ruling race.

The somewhat sinister maxim, divide et impera [had] been acted upon', adds Bosworth Smith, with 'triumphant results'.

John Lawrence said in a letter to his older brother that 'our very existence depends on our gradually reducing the power and consequence of the chiefs'.58

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

Authority, of course, is primarily service, but service of a very particular kind; it involves listening, consulting, and reaching consensus if possible, but also, when necessary, correcting, admonishing, rebuking, and making tough decisions even when there isn't consensus.

Our understanding of human history will always be inadequate unless we realize that, as Paul puts it, "we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers" (Eph 6:12).

Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government.

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. —DON DELILLO

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Sincerity is the LUXURY allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive