Sumerian Proverb Quotes

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

We do not support rebellion against our rulers even if they are unjust. We do not make supplications against them and do not set any revolution against them.

We are not rebels. Rebels defy authority and break laws at will.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

One authority, one gun…

I never wanted the government to feel my pain. I wanted it to feel my boot in its butt.

No act which is directed against the Inquisition can deserve the name of a rebellion.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.

The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.

He who saith “thou shalt” to me is my mortal foe.

Those who fear men like laws.