Quotes About Authority

I hate having to ask permission to do everything, its one of those gay things that comes with being young & having caring parents.

Parents think we're too young for love, too old for fun, too smart to play dumb and too immature for grown up conversations. Its no wonder teens are so rebellious!

In this world man must either be anvil or hammer.

I'm not going to stop the wheel I'm going to break the wheel.

My name is Linus, and I am your God.

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

I'm a tyrant for freedom and a rebel to tyranny.

I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over the cop looks at it (moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly)... and says, "Here, you can go."

You are free to do as you are told. For freedom, is a figment of your imagination. But imagination is where it all starts. So MAKE freedom.

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

When I am the weaker, I ask you for my freedom, because that is your principle; but when I am the stronger, I take away your freedom, because that is my principle

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

But when I say free, I mean free: free from bond, of chain or command:to go where you will, even, even to Mordor Saruman, if you desire.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.