Quotes About Authority

The layman's Constitutional view is that what he likes is Constitutional and that which he doesn't like is un-Constitutional. That about measures up the Constitutional acumen of the average person.

Our constitution shows one thing pretty clearly. While the Founders wanted a stable government, they were also afraid of it.

one has control only until he's forced to exercise it.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

The only point in making money is so you can tell some big shot where to go.

Rarely," said Dax to himself, "does a soldier see with naked eyes. He is nearly always looking through lenses, lenses which are made of the insignia of his rank.

Silly," Dax thought, "but the mere issuing of a command always inspires confidence. It doesn'tt matter whether it is a necessary command, or even a correct one.: Then , a little later, an afterthought came to him: "It inspires self-confidence even in the man who issues it.

Silly…but the mere issuing of a command always inspires confidence. It doesn't matter whether it is a necessary command, or even a correct one…it inspires self-confidence even in the man who issues it.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

The disciples of Jesus "found themselves thinking that if divine goodness were to manifest itself in human form, this (he) is how it would behave… he invited people to see differently instead of telling them what to do or believe…he located the authority of his teaching in his hearer's hearts, not in himself or God-as-removed.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy, God will forgive you but the bureaucracy.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

But God will live in our midst only as the King, nothing less.

Men of the cloth live in this monologue, it is their due: nobody talks back to a pulpit.

Good laws left to the interpretation of evil men are no longer good.

Unfortunately, many people sleepwalk through life without conscious awareness of their own system, if they have one at all, and are therefore susceptible to external notions o right and wrong imposed by others, particlarly members of the ofen eminently unqualified upper class and their support system, mass media.

Charismatic rule has long been neglected and ridiculed, but apparently it has deep roots and becomes a powerful stimulus once the proper psychological and social conditions are set. The Leader's charismatic power is not a mere phantasm – none can doubt that millions believe in it.' Franz Neumann, 1942

Where there are drones, there will always be police. Where there are police, there will always be violence.