Quotes About Authority

Ä°nsan sonsuza dek kraliçe kalamaz. Gücünü devam ettirebilmek için ya tahttan vazgeçeceksin, yahut da ÅŸehit edileceksin. Ben birincisini seçtim.

It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and, therefore, like power.

All arguments, at their core, were about power. Who had it. Who wanted it. Who would surrender. Who would prevail.

The main boy—the one who was calling the shots—pushed

watched as the earth mother turned into a corporate dominatrix, chewing out the legal counsel

I can see the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled. Jane Welsh Carlyle, (1845)

But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.

Could soldiers read? Mr Norrell did not know. He turned with a look of desperate appeal to Childermass. Childermass shrugged.

To Strange's unnautical eye, it looked very much as if the ship had simply lain down and gone to sleep. He felt that if he had been the Captain he would have spoken to her sternly and made her get up again.

By a very conservative estimate, a hundred million people have died at the hands of their own governments in this century. Given that record, how bad could anarchy be?

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

A bigot can be defined as a guy who gets caught practicing sociology without a license.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

You are engineers of human souls.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

The Pope! How many divisions has he got?

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

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We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.

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