Quotes About Authority

Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

I no longer need my power tie, because I always have, my power finger.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

Each person is born with an infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance.