Quotes About Authority

The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you've always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Do not expect justice where might is right.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

It is better to preach five words of God's Word than five million words of man's wisdom.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

Beauty is a King that needs to be obeyed

But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.