Quotes About Authority

You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn't 'democratic'—it's something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.

I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.