Quotes About Authority

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

one of the secret masters of the world: a librarian. They control information. Don't ever p**s one off.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Busty' Roberts had joined the Royal Artillery in 1914 and since then had steadily risen to the rank of Gunner. Now the crunch: someone with a perverted sense of humour made him a Lance Bombardier. Roberts went insane with power. The war now consisted of two people, him and Hitler.

Roberts had joined the Royal Artillery in 1914 and since then had steadily risen to the rank of Gunner. Now the crunch: someone with a perverted sense of humour made him a Lance Bombardier. Roberts went insane with power. The war now consisted of two people, him and Hitler.

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

Los peores tiranos son aquellos que saben hacerse amar.

I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and filtered through a handful of commentators who admit to their own set of biases.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans fools and women will take a little longer.

?emu onda Komesarijat naroda za sudstvo? - pitao je Steinberg Staljina. Zvat ?emo ga onda komesarijat naroda za društveno istrebljenje, sve ?e biti jasnije.

La cuestión de saber a quién pertenecerá el poder en el país, esto es si la burguesía debe vivir o perecer, no se resolverá por lo que dicten los artículos de la constitución sino recurriendo a todas las formas de violencia»

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.

But I was commanded to believe; and yet it corresponded not with what had been established by calculations and my own sight.

Nevertheless power and domination are not given even to such men save by the providence of the most high God, when He judges that the state of human affairs is worthy of such lords.

Now, if wisdom is God, who made all things, as is attested by the divine authority and truth, then the philosopher is a lover of God.

For, as far as this life of mortals is concerned, which is spent and ended in a few days, what does it matter under whose government a dying man lives, if they who govern do not force him to impiety and iniquity?

An unjust law is no law at all.

Give, O Lord, what Thou commandest, and then command what Thou wilt.

Rome has spoken; the case is concluded.

Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing.

Obey your bishop! Obey those set over you [Heb 13:17], the teachers of the Church. I remind you, my dear friends, of what I said when I was with you: do not receive any outside or unknown preacher, unless he be sent by your bishop or preaches with the permission of the pope. For how shall they preach unless they are sent [Rom 10:15]?

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.