Arrest Authority

Famous quotes containing the words arrest and/or authority:

“Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me,
Why plowing, building, ruling and the rest,
Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest,
By cursed Cain’s race invented be,
And blest Seth vexed us with Astronomie.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)

“Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)