Quotes About Authority

Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

Put your hands where I can see 'em, so they look like 12 PM On the dot, see this Glock? Don't make me give these shells freedom.

Obedience is the road to freedom.

The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority. It is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.

I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people

If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

Freedom exists only with power.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

A fool is very dangerous when in power.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.