Quotes About Authority

Our laws are ultimately all that protect us from tyranny, and before them we are all equal - prime ministers and private citizens alike.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

A dictator keeps control and leads. A tyrant is someone selfish who destroys.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

I'm a tyrant that you should trust, and you should let me run your life, because I do know what is best for you.

There are those who think that in order to get respect you have to be some sort of tyrant or overly authoritative. You can be fair to people.

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

I shout at people... I am told that I'm a tyrant, but I still get things done, so that is fine.

My name is on the door, and I care very much about the design that gets put out. I'm sorry, but it has to be my way. You learn that by working for people like I. M. Pei. You think he isn't a design tyrant? Is Calvin Klein a tyrant? When it came to his dresses, he had to be.

The big tyrants never face justice.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

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

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are - usurpers and petty tyrants.

When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly.

Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.