Quotes About Authority

I thought we'd already determined that you haven't the right to order me about. That can only be purchased with a special license from the archbishop. He shook his head before saying softly, I'm afraid I can no longer afford to purchase such a license. Not when it could cost the both of us so dearly.

Los gobiernos centrales siempre han constituido uno de los mayores peligros para la humanidad.

Power corrupts, and if not watched carefully, if not kept under control, it will come to dominate the user.

A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand; instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists.

The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.

People who are both powerful and dissatisfied are peculiarly dangerous.

What is one to make of the tirades of those who appear to know little of politics beyond their own invaluable right to publish their stuff and say what they think?

A comédia representa uma ameaça para o poder soberano não só por causa do seu pendor anárquico, mas também por fazer pouco de questões tão importantes como o sofrimento e a morte, diminuindo assim a força de algumas das sanções judiciais que as classes governantes tendem a ter na manga. Ela pode fomentar uma despreocupação temerária que afrouxa o poder da autoridade.

If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge them.

Morality cannot be divorced from power.

many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather be provided a guiding light, regardless of the fuel, than light a candle themselves.

You have one Mord-Sith and one Mother Confessor, here, both in very bad moods. I would suggest you not give us an excuse to lose our temper, or we may never find it again in your lifetime.

To question me once is a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.

Leadership is a nurturing of those under your command.

This is how tyrants win the will of the people: with lies.

Cara, in the lead, came to a halt beside them, looking from one to the other. Still with the clothes, Lord Rahl?

Like all power, it simply exists. It's the user who determines what use it will be put to.

I will give you war; a real war, not a slaughter of women and children but a war lead by me, the Mother Confessor, a woman! War without quarter! - Kahlan Amnell, Mother Confessor

You can never stop all wrongdoing, but if you don't punish it, then it proliferates until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

Only when all must bow to the same law is every person free.

My brother always says that real power is not brokered in public.

Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather be provided a guiding light, regardless of the fuel, than light a candle themselves.

Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather

The dead must heed them.