Quotes About Authority

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

If they would have introduced me as someone who is basically The Undertaker's boss, it would have fell flat. I'm 200 pounds and I'm 5'10", so it certainly would have been difficult to take me seriously as someone who is intimidating The Undertaker.

The ugly truth is it's the spineless parents who parade their undisciplined children around like royalty that make people dislike kids.

A princely mind will undo a private family.

The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.

Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown.

As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with the courts can never hope to have.

We now have the right to have immediate, unfettered access to any site in Iraq and we have the right to interview people, both inside and outside Iraq.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

I'm from the old school - you go where the power is, and you try to make fun of it. When it becomes off limits to say or do certain things without being brutalized or censored or whatever, it's unfortunate.

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.

The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.

He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:

Why the law of our forefathers are brought to nought, and the written covenants come to none effect-

You are judged many times more by what you give assent to others doing than what you do yourself.

You have purged your way. You are ready to lead sons of men.

You should assume the mantle of your birthright.