Quotes About Authority

Society, like nature, is a jealous power, and will have not her rights encroached on, or her system set at naught.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth is capable of converting it into a fact.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

Biurokratija, kaip ir kariuomen?, turi savo pasyv? paklusnum?; tai sistema, kuri užgniaužia s?mon?, žmog? paver?ia nieku ir gal? gale j?, tartum kok? sraigt? ar veržl?, prisuka prie valdžios mašinos.

The head has its designated place in all creations. If by chance a nation allows its head to fall at its feet, sooner or later it is sure to discover that it has committed suicide.

Passive obedience is as well known in a Government department as in the army itself; and the administrative system silences consciences, annihilates the individual, and ends (give it time enough) by fashioning a man into a vise or a thumbscrew, and he becomes part of the machinery of Government

You haven't yet given me the right to obey you when you say: 'I want to.

Les lois sont des toiles d'araignée à travers lesquelles passent les grosses mouches et où restent les petites

To watch the governing power is a useful career, and, I may add, a very busy one.

The old man replied, gravely: "The police, my dear boy, is the most incompetent thing on this earth, and government the feeblest in all matters concerning individuals. Neither the police nor the government can read hearts.

In that there is nothing very grave or very gay; since the world was a world, governments have always found pens for sale, and never have they failed to buy them

Unofficially—for not even white men would write such rules down—if Matthew wanted to take Rabbit by force, no one would challenge him. It was not even against the law in Georgia for a white man to ravish a slave woman. If the woman was a white man's own slave, it was his right. If he ravished another white man's slave, it was only a crime against property, such as hurting a horse or dog that belonged to another. Yet

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

The man who remains calm inevitably takes command of a situation.

And the man who remains calm inevitably takes command of a situation.

The law plays fast and loose with reality- and no one really believes it.

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

Our supreme governors, the mob.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.

Bold preaching is the only preaching that is owned of God.

But as even the internal evidences of scripture would be insufficient to support their authority without the concurrence of external evidence, so would the external be found wanting without the internal. But these together are abundantly sufficient to establish the credibility of this gospel, which is, like every thing else of the work and wisdom of God, the wonder and admiration of the believing soul.

And has anything changed today? Where are the authorities now? How come any regular M.D. or pediatrician is allowed to diagnose depression or bipolar illness or ADD in children, and prescribe medications, without a second opinion? How many children are taking powerful brain medications now simply because their parents find them too difficult to handle? How many of those boys and girls are having their childhoods taken away from them, the way mine was taken away from me?