Quotes About Authority

The core proposition was that a minority would always rule over a majority.

Who says organization, says oligarchy." This was Michels's "iron law.

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving.

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

Stephen] Harper had said he would use all legal means, and what [John] Baird suggested was an option the prome minister was considering. If the governor general had refused his request, he could have replaced her with a more compliant one, making the case to the Queen that the people of Canada were opposed in great numbers to a coalition replacing his government.

The baby boom eventually prompted Hubbard to order that no one could get pregnant without his permission; according to several Sea Org members, any woman disobeying his command would be "off-loaded" to another Scientology organization or flown to New York for an abortion.

Miscavige keeps a number of dogs, including five beagles. He had blue vests made up for each of them, with four stripes on the shoulder epaulets, indicating the rank of Sea Org Captain. He insists that people salute the dogs as they parade by. The dogs have a mini-treadmill where they work out.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own (and follow them strictly).

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coin itself.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

She wanted to say in a voice thick and passionate, "you're so wrong", but what was the point of saying that when they didn't realize their rules were only that, their rules, and not some absolute, pre-existing creed that was their mission to interpret and protect?

de kracht ís de Heilige Geest, en niet iets dat Hij schenkt

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

1. The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. 2. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute Hive-Label). If there is only One God then there is no choice, no option, no selection of reality. There is only Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means "submission". The basic posture of Christianity is kneeling. Thy will be done.

You are a God Act like one!

When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.

If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing.