Quotes About Authority

Everyone was impressed by his humility, and one visitor was stunned that "he speaks of the war as if he had not directed it;

Often, the King would dance himself, rolling his scapulars and weaving his steps around the skulls of his favourite victims. Or he would amuse himself by teaching little boys to chop heads, and when they made a mess of it shout, 'Not that way, you fool! Think of chopping wood!' 

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

Owning other human beings outright shaped the very core of the typical planter's personality. At home, after all, they were at once employers, legislators, policemen, prosecutors, judges, juries, jailers, and executioners.

The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority.

former NSA director Michael Hayden: "Give me the box you will allow me to operate in. I'm going to play to the very edges of that box. . . . You, the American people, through your elected representatives, give me the field of play and I will play very aggressively in it.

we fear terrorists more than the police, even though in the US you're nine times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist.

be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist.

Or we fear terrorists more than the police, even though in the US you're nine times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist.

But when it comes to governments, unhappy as I am to say it, I would rather be eavesdropped on by the US government than by many other regimes.

As a child you don't question your parents' choices. You accept them. They are justified by the godlike status of parenthood.

As a child you don't question your parents' choices. You accept them. They

You try to tell people what to think and you end up a little Madison Avenue mind fascist.

Fuck the moon landing, that's just a trick of 'The Man'; fuck you, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins, let's rock.

They can't strike against smugglers! We're not the government. We are a criminal private-enterprise operation!

We don't think the way they want us to," the girl said. "And they'll kill us for it. But not until we've pried the worldskull open and put our needles in.

Guys who were all Papa Docs and Step-pin' Razors and Whippin' Sticks.

The Zaibatsu recognizes one civil right: the right to death.

The ability to expend energy, especially in the form of other people's labour, in non-utilitarian ways, is the most basic and universally understood symbol of power.

Como si hubiésemos pasado, justamente, de un Antiguo Régimen a uno Nuevo, marcado por la irrupción multiforme de la cuestión de los climas y, cosa aún más extraña, de su vínculo con el gobierno.

While only a small number of people wrestled with the philosophical problems that Schaeffer faced, by the 1960s the majority of young people wrestled with the question of authority.

Science is not a neutral or innocent commodity which can be employed as a convenience by people wishing to partake only of the West's material power. Rather it is spiritually corrosive, burning away ancient authorities and traditions. It cannot really co-exist with anything.

turn over the reins to the board of directors.

an odd-job detective agency with fuzzy lines of authority and responsibility.