Quotes About Authority

And if you acknowledged cleanliness,oder, and the law, you also had to acknowledge the police.

If it's the two men in suits with Bibles then he slams it shut to make sure not even one of their words enters into the hall.

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.

All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.

In a generation of swine, the one-eyed pig is king.

This is the same cruel and paradoxically benevolent bullshit that has kept the Catholic Church going for so many centuries. It is also the military ethic … a blind faith in some higher and wiser "authority." The Pope, The General, The Prime Minister … all the way up to "God.

Being arrested in any airport is bad, but being arrested in the Miami airport is terrifying.

America has been breeding mass anomie since the end of World War II. It is not a political thing, but the sense of new realities, of urgency, anger and sometimes desperation in a society where even the highest authorities seem to be grasping at straws.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. —John Milton, Paradise Lost

The trick is to control them without any provocation, but outlaws are very easily provoked.

The idea is to show him that you were always in total control of yourself and your vehicle—while he lost control of everything.

But the fact that Segarra was exercising some sinister control over me began to get on my nerves. Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant, it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want.

Such power as I possess for working in the political field has derived from my experiments in the spiritual field.

They are like the handful of belongings saved from a burnt-down house. There should be a continuous challenge to authority for change and reform, and groups of ordinary people should form an alliance to reclaim what was taken by the state inch by inch, like a children's game, and enlarge the territory to the level of practical equality.

Maybe he's up to something, maybe he'Å› not really crazy after all. Perhaps he just got fed up acting normal and decided to act crazy instead, and they locked him up because he went too far.

Perhaps he just got fed up acting normal and decided to act crazy instead, and they locked him up because he went too far.

The expository preacher is not one who 'shares his studies' with others, he is an ambassador and a messenger authoritatively delivering the Word of God to men.

It was, for the time being, an empty threat, and he must have sensed it also, for he laughed easily and with contempt. "You will do what your masters tell you to do, doctor. As do we all.

You are far more powerful than that, are you not? You change the way people think, shape the way they see the world.

They respect their betters, and fear those below them.

Sir, did you not hear the orders of the King? Bailly replied: ...It seems o me that the nation assembled cannot take orders.

I accuse you of marching towards supreme power. - said by Jean-Baptiste Louvet to Robespierre (1792)

When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference