Quotes About Authority

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

The less government we have, the better—the fewer laws, and the less confided power.

Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table.

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.

God said, I am tired of kings,I suffer them no more;Up to my ear the morning bringsThe outrage of the poor.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

The faith that stand on authority is not faith.

The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.

There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do.

There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.

Article 356 gave it the power to take over a state administration on the recommendation of the governor.

They assured him that the president was bound to act with 'the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers and cannot act independently of that advice'. As they saw it, the position of the president of India was even weaker than that of the British monarch.

From the time of the Congress split, Mrs Gandhi had worked to place loyal individuals in position of authority, and to make public institutions an instrument of her will.

plain, once ruled by a single monarch, was now split between

The history of the twentieth century, he pointed out, is replete with instances of the tragedy that overtakes democracy when a leader who has risen to power on the crest of a popular wave or with the support of a democratic organisation becomes a victim of political narcissism and is egged on by a coterie of unscrupulous sycophants who use corruption and terror to silence opposition and attempt to make public opinion an echo of authority.

Everybody listens to Nobody!

in a surveillance state it was vital to reserve the ability to turn a blind eye to certain people at certain times.

The worst atrocities… Maybe half of them arose directly because the powerful had a monopoly or a near-monopoly on some key capability.

Are you wiser than humanity? Ilya's whispered in his mind, echoing Ananda. Not even you should have that power.

When the CIA is the place you turn to for moral clarity, Nakamura thought, you might have a problem.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.

you come with the imprimatur of power." "Imprimatur, huh?" "Seal of approval. In case you have to throw your weight around.

while "freedom" from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimentation." -- Making Magic , p. 13