Quotes About Authority

Ze wilde hun vertellen dat achter het communisme, achter het fascisme, achter alle bezettingen en invallen een wezenlijker en algemener kwaad schuilde; het beeld van dat kwaad is voor haar een optocht van marcherende mensen geworden die de handen heffen en eenstemmig dezelfde lettergrepen schreeuwen. Maar ze wist dat ze hun niet kon uitleggen. Verlegen bracht ze het gesprek op een ander onderwerp.

behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison.

La lotta dell'uomo contro il potere è la lotta della memoria contro l'oblio

Non esiste alcuna certezza che Dio abbia affidato davvero all'uomo il dominio sulle altre creature. E' invece più probabile che l'uomo si sia inventato Dio per santificare il dominio che egli ha usurpato sulla mucca o sul cavallo

La lotta dell'uomo contro il potere è la lotta della memoria contro l'oblio.

whether they knew or didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. Is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?

?nsan?n iktidara kar?? sava??m?, belle?in unutu?a kar?? sava??m?d?r.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the rule of the game and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on.

Believers in aristocracy and socialism share a faith in centralized rule, in rule by command rather than by voluntary cooperation.

The role of government just considered is to do something that the market cannot do for itself, namely, to determine, arbitrate, and enforce the rules of the game.

Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.

I love producing shows. And so when you're on a show where other people are making decisions you don't necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger.

authority love your neighbor.no matter what the condition is. even if it means to sacrifice your plan to do what he or she wants.

The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

I may command where I adore.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

I love having a president who I think is smarter than I am.

I don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility.

The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.