Quotes About Authority

Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.

Never ask a surgeon whether you need an operation.

On the authority of Your Word, we declare that we are more than conquerors and are gaining a surpassing victory through Jesus, Who loves us. We refuse to let ourselves be overcome with evil, but we will overcome and master evil with good.

I make my schedule around Your Word. I make the Word the final authority to settle all questions that confront me. I choose to agree with the Word of God, and I choose to disagree with any thoughts, conditions, or circumstances contrary to Your Word.

Sexual religion is the opiate of the supermenial.

Anger without power is folly.

He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

Though the Church authorities were clearly interested in trying to impose a tighter moral discipline on society, they were never completely successful in extinguishing popular culture's hold on Christmas celebrations.44

Opinion is death. Opinion is plague. When it comes to web site management, trusting your gut is the last thing you should do.

True obedience requires greatness and inward freedom of soul.

Whatever institutions or forms of government have been devised through the ages, the idea of liberty has remained constant: the right of each man to consult his conscience without reference to authorities or majorities, custom or opinion.

This is the Hermes who, on the authority of Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods [3.22.56], was called by the Egyptians [Thoth or] Theuth (from which the Greeks are said to have derived theos),

Los hombres ambiciosos que afectan señoría en sus ciudades, ábrense en ellas rumbo mostrándose parciales de la muchedumbre, y halagándola con ciertos simulacros o apariencias de libertad.

Monarchies conform best to human nature and therefore constitute the most durable form of state.

Power – any form of power – is acceptable only if it's transparent and clean, if it's exercised in a way that is equal for everybody.

Chiunque detenga il potere può controllare anche il linguaggio, e non solo con le proibizioni della censura, ma cambiando il significato delle parole".

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

The poor object to being governed badly, while the rich object to being governed at all.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

Aprenderás el desprecio ante la pequeñez de los poderosos, conocerás el respeto ante la grandeza de los pequeños.

Mais c'est toujours ainsi en temps de guerre : les chefs aiment à décréter, du fond de leur quartier général, l'ordre de se faire tuer sur place, alors même qu'il suffirait d'un léger déplacement latéral pour éviter l'obus.

This time she did not feel a thing when the Headmaster stuck the pin into her arm.