1,121 Quotes About Authority

The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order and in the assertion that, without Authority there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions.

Depression arises when one uses his power and authority. Whatever authority there is, it is there for giving happiness to others. Authority is to give happiness to others, even to those who are guilty of doing wrong.

Guadalupe Fuentes:--They're not paid to kill honest people, to shoot for no good reasons.Rubenia Fuentes:--Ah, my little girl, then why do you think they give them those big guns that look like tree branches and are larger than they themselves? To shoot, baby, to shoot. Because if they don't, that gives rise to talk that the authorities are useless, are nothing more than decoration.

A coward's gun is emptied when fear pulls the trigger, and hate is the ammunition of choice.

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.

Morals; the pathetic answer to authoritySeen two gorillas sharing a banana?

when you get to the peak, remember the valley exists

Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is fallible, or that our own blank, innocent ignorance can destroy the pure, the good, and the loved are moments the very memory of which constitutes the beginning of a strategy to live in a world where such horrors exist.

...if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...