Quotes About Authority

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.

There is a place where God, through the power of the Holy Ghost, reigns supreme in our lives.

If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.

Power wears out those who don't have it

A mighty power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

Those who would circumcise, implicitly suggest that they know better than nature, God, or whatever power created us and our world.

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

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

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals.

Those who know about education have no power; those who have the power know little or nothing about education.

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

Great men are almost always bad men.

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.