Quotes About Authority

Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

When a rules man gives you a ruling, that's it. Amen.

Men. One minute they have their tongues down your throat and the next they're forbidding you from meeting your own father and criticizing your fashion choices.

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.

In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]

A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

Power resides where men believe it to reside.