Quotes About Authority

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.

To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.