Quotes About Authority

So everybody lives the way they're told to. The way they have to. Everybody most of the time. Not ever all the time. Hair style, clothing, manner of speech, ideas, cars, houses, and everything. Just like they have to. Even the way we walk. But not all the time. Comes a time when everybody breaks out. And that's the only characteristic of human nature I know of. Not greed, not obedience, not violence, nor any of those things the capitalists would have us believe are intrinsic. Only rebellion.

I cannot believe in a God who metes out hurt for hurt, pain for pain, torture for torture. Nor do I believe that God invests human representatives with such power to torture and kill. The paths of history are stained with the blood of those who have fallen victim to "God's Avengers." Kings and Popes and military generals and heads of state have killed, claiming God's authority and God's blessing. I do no believe in such a God.

Children started to be encouraged to think and go against authority if they didn't agree with what they were being told – this became a priority after the German occupation of Denmark and was something Danes were very conscious of. We wanted citizens who were democratic and could have their own ideas, so self-development is a big part of learning in Denmark.

Proof of the power of the press is the fear of the press by the government. Martha Gellhorn as quoted by Helen Thomas

you leave me sitting here writing long margin notes in library books that don't belong to me, some day they'll find out i did it and take my library card away.

Women with power and authority tend to intimidate people far more than men with the same qualities, particularly if those women deserve the position they have achieved.

And you police officers! Can't even tell the difference between girls and boys.

The fate of every nation rests in its own power.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life.

Impuissance, puissance des autres»

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Who will free me from this turbulent priest?

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men

Some spiritual leaders try to be more committed. What they need is to be more submitted.

Lastly, they must be men of honest report, whose life and sound conversation are by their deeds perfectly tried and sufficiently witnessed of unto the people: and finally, they must be such as bear authority, and not be despised as rascal and vile knaves.

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.