Quotes About Authority

The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

There will be no more protests. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of Halla. Your voice." "There goes freedom of speech," I said.

Obedience is the path to freedom.

The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.

As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

Freedom is the silence of the law.

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.