Quotes About Authority

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

One with the law is a majority.

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Men make laws; women make manners.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

How a minority, Reaching majority, Seizing authority, Hates a minority!

Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Let they child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Let them obey that know not how to rule.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

The insolence of office.

Time is the tyrant of the body.

Time is the king of men.

One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it it opinion that uses the force.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.