Quotes About Authority

My job is to enforce the law, without fear or favor.

Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.

Michael Johnson doesn't pay my bills or sign my cheques. So I don't really care what he has to say.

Any private security is a joke in a country where you're up against your own government.

It's great fun being an academic because you have a certain licence to be a bit of a joker.

Knowledge is power [Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est].

Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.

He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Revenge is a king of wild justice.

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.

Judges ought to remember that their office is to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.

Knowledge itself is power

Men in great place are thrice servants, servants to the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business, so as they have freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.

The punishing of wits enhances their authority.

A la naturaleza se le domina obedeciendola.

The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness, and facility.

Truth is the daughter of time, not authority.

The police," he said. "You can't carry firearms in England without a licence. Just like dogs. You'll be getting into trouble before you know where you are. Now look here, ma'am," he went on, with increasing confidence, "you'd far better make a clean breast of it." "A clean breast? What do you mean? Why do you pester me like this?" she cried, with sudden terror.

The Church understands herself in terms of holiness; the world understands the Church in terms of power.