Quotes About Authority

By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as his enemy.

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place.

I'm a disciplinarian. I'm the tough love pet owner. I believe in very well-behaved animals.

Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.

I am the captain of my pain.

Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

Statism ends with an eye roll.

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.

As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.