Quotes About Authority

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.

Where there is no law there is no freedom.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.

Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.

If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.

Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?