Quotes About Authority

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

Every spoof gives more power to the original.

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.

Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.

It is impossible to reign innocently.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.