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Quotes About Authority

He who controls the past controls the future.
~ Laozi
The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.
~ Thaddeus Stevens
The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
~ Martin Heidegger
The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.
~ Thom Yorke
The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.
~ Adolf Hitler
Would you like to do something good for the future of the human race; well, start killing some of its powerful members.
~ William C. Brown
When we get to the future, I'll decide the future.
~ Unknown
If a leader cannot give you a clear picture of what he or she sees in the future, that person is not the leader of that organization.
~ John C. Maxwell
Control of space means control of the world.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control
~ William Binney
Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
~ Viggo Mortensen
The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.
~ Jose Eduardo dos Santos
Only God who appointed me will remove me.
~ Robert Mugabe
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
~ John Calvin
I am the punishment of God. If you have not committed sins then God wouldn't have sent me.
~ Genghis Khan
The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.
~ John Knox
I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don't fear Him.
~ Saadi
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you
~ Will Rogers
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
~ William Shakespeare
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.
~ Immanuel Kant