Quotes About Authority

In spite of the fact that at times I would challenge parents authority. They provided unconditional love.

The people are always prepared to shout on the side of power and to make a noise when it costs them nothing

Se viceversa un filosofo dice che la cosiddetta 'verità' è una questione di potere" perché fa il filosofo invece che il mago?

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

cite the following books: The Supreme Court Explained by Ellen Greenberg, Norton Publishing, 1997; The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Supreme Court by Lita Epstein, Alpha, 2004; and Images of America: Arlington National Cemetery by George W. Dodge, Arcadia Publishing, 2006.

This isn't an accident; this happens because to people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below. They need to watch us. They need to monitor what we're thinking. It's the only thing between them and a guillotine.

Civilizations rose and fell; what caused them to be remembered was not their contribution to knowledge or culture, not even the size of their empires, but rather how much force they extorted upon the landscape.

You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're going to-' Eliot produced a pistol. He didn't seem to pull it from anywhere. He just suddenly had it. Wil's eyes stung. 'See?' Eliot put away the gun. 'There are all kinds of persuasion.'

You've delegated the ability to make up your mind.

He strode briskly away, to do whatever it was the managers did. Have meetings, I guess. Make phone calls. It was hard for us on the technical side to understand why the company required so many managers. Engineers built things. Salespeople sold things. Even Human Resources I could understand, kind of. But managers proliferated despite performing very few identifiable functions.

Roger picks up a sachet of sugar and shakes it as if it's in need of discipline: wap-wap-wap-wap.

somewhere along the line, this freedom stuff got way out of control.

In the military, we have always had a healthy disrespect for democracy.

If these guys had all the money, John wondered, who could stop them doing whatever they wanted?

When a new Duchess is brought to Tankerton, the oldest elm in the park must be felled.

Suppose he went to the Bursar, obtained an exeat, fled straight to London!

me. Glendin, there have been cowardly legal murders

You ever hear about that experiment an American journalist did in Moscow in the 1970s? He just lined up at some building, nothing special about it, just a random door. Sure enough, someone got in line behind him, then a couple more, and before you knew it, they were backed up around the block. No one asked what the line was for. They just assumed it was worth it. I can't say if that story was true. Maybe it's an urban legend, or a cold war myth. Who knows?

It's a lot easier to blow up trains than to make them run on time. What is it that Mister Churchill used to say? "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine.

To even call them "units" is a joke. These were just mobs of men in uniforms, clerks

When Travis D'Ambrosia became chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he not only invented the resource-to-kill ratio, but developed a comprehensive strategy to employ it. I always listened to him when he told me a certain weapons system was vital.

From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say "They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine." The freedom, God help us, to say "I was only following orders.

I have the power to cause you pain.