Quotes About Authority

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

True power and true politeness are above vanity.

Where there is no common power, there is no law

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

We . . . exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep of His flock who are outside into the fold committed to our charge . . .

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.

Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

In the age of globalization pooled sovereignty means more power, not less.

Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.