Quotes About Authority

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

All power is inherent in the people.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.

They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over it!

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be.

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched.