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Quotes About Authority

An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy
~ Machiavelli, Niccolò
Whoever has the sword will have the earth.
~ Oliver North, Counterfeit Lies
The worst kind of tyrant is one that is righteously wrong
~ rassool jibraeel snyman
5, 6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders.
~ Derrick Wolf, Boys for Men
When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.
~ Michelle Templet
He hadn't killed nearly as many people as I had. But then again, he hadn't had my advantage, which was the full cooperation of our Government.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Hocus Pocus
War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals.
~ Georges Clemenceau
(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and iron.
~ Otto von Bismarck
You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
~ Mae West
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
~ William Penn
An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
~ Alexander the Great
A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.
~ Ibn Taymiyyah
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?
~ David Livingstone
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law
~ Thomas Hobbes
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
~ Victor Hugo
Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.
~ Ishida Mitsunari
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
~ James Madison
It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
~ John Wycliffe
No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate
~ Patricia Hill Collins
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
~ William Penn