Quotes About Authority

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.

Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.

Oppression is the essence of power.