Quotes about Authority

Practical experience and accurate observation show that one cannot influence one's own dreams. There are people, it is true, who assert that they can influence them. But if you look into their dream material, you find that they do only what I do with my disobedient dog: I order him to do those things I notice he wants to do anyhow, so that I can preserve my illusion of authority.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

To serve an ambassador who was despotic toward his subordinates and servile toward those of a higher social rank.

Typical Chilean characteristics, such as sobriety, a horror of ostentation, of standing out over others or attracting attention, generosity, a tendency to compromise rather than confront, a legalistic mentality, respect for authority, resignation to bureaucracy, enthusiasm for political argument

They made you believe you had power; they hammered at your brain over the barracks loudspeakers; they commanded you in the name of your country; and they gave you your share of guilt so you could not wash your hands of it but would be forever bound by ties of blood.

Be God or let God.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

A precedent embalms a principle.

The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.