Quotes About Authority

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

The unrestrained freedom of thinking and of openly making known one's thoughts is not inherent in the rights of citizens and is by no means worthy of favor and support.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

Real freedom will come when U.S. soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.

The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.

The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.