Quotes About Authority

Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.

The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.

All middle men are bad.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

And when and Eve submitted unto Satan they are the ones that empowered Satan. In a sense Man made Satan. God created Lucifer but Man made Satan.

No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.

Each man is for his lord, do not give chase.

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

Put on the new man by renewing your mind with God's Word and submitting your body to the authority of that Word.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

He's not just the most powerful man in labor," Robert Kennedy had said in the wake of Hoffa's announcement; "he's the most powerful man in the country, next to the President.

Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.