Quotes About Authority

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, 'Limit yourself'; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

The only thing power respects, is power.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

Power must never be trusted without a check.

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.