Quotes About Authority

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things.

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.

The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Men still have to be governed by deception.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.