Quotes About Authority

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

Always obey your parents - when they are present.

The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad--aka the Fun-Sucker--as opposed to being a friend.

We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.

If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy.

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

They loved their country largely because they controlled it.

He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword ... unless he's a general.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.