Quotes About Authority

One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or hazard.

But with all its truth, the argument cannot answer the time-honored question: who educates the educators, and where is the proof that they are in possession of "the good?

La libera elezione di padroni e schiavi, non elimina né i padroni né gli schiavi" Herbert Marcuse "L'uomo a una dimensione

Law and order are always and everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

C gives the programmer what the programmer wants; few restrictions, few complaints... C++ maintains the original spirit of C, that the programmer not the language is in charge.

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.

A manís liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Government is essentially immoral.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

You will go to the lady and say certain things as i instruct you Suppose she sends for the police? She will not send for the police You cannot know that ! Mon cher, practically speaking, i know EVERYTHING

Wer die rechtsstaatlichen Grenzen von Fall zu Fall verschieben will, der hebt sie auf.

Als das Grundgesetz entstandt, zitterte förmlich der Boden, auf dem es geschrieben wurde.

Je weiter eine konkrete Tat entfernt ist, umso mehr ist dem Staat erlaubt, um sie zu verhindern.

Der Präventionsstaat muss [...] dem Bürger immer mehr Freiheiten nehmen, um ihm dafür Sicherheit zu geben.

Prävention, die das Recht konsumiert, hat den Zug zu Totalität und Exzessivität.

In einem maßlosen Staat [...] gibt es vielleicht ein wenig mehr Sicherheit, aber ganz sicher sehr viel weniger Freiheit.

Die Folter war [...] praktizierte Schutzpflicht des Souveräns für seine Untertanen.

the subduing of the earth, that is, the whole of culture, is given to him, and can be given to him only because he is created after God's image; man can be ruler of the earth only because and in so far as he is a servant, a son of God.

In case a dogma is not based on divine authority, it is wrong to call it by that name, and it should not have a place in the faith of the church.

The doctrine of the divine authority of Holy Scripture constitutes an important component in the words of God that Jesus preached, and if he was mistaken on this point he was wrong at a point that is most closely tied in with the religious life and he can no longer be recognized as our highest prophet. We cannot take Jesus seriously as a teacher and reject his own teaching concerning Holy Scripture.