Quotes About Authority

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

The Gospel is a gospel of power or it is nothing at all.

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.

These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

When I came to Mogadishu...here was one road built by the Italians. If you try to force me to stand down, I will leave the city as I found it. I came to power with a gun; only the gun can make me go.

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power.