Quotes About Authority

When we deride journalists as stenographers, it's not about them repeating the words of powerful officials. The real crime is absorbing the ideas of powerful people (often crafted by groups of officials in a dreary corporate process) and repeating them as if they're your own personal thoughts.

how could authorities distinguish between a white person who was merely poor by circumstance and one who was biologically predisposed to poverty, crime, and low social standing?

symbolic violence

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves, and to prevent our getting the notion of a paramount right reason.

Even in a revolutionary movement, most people are like sheep. They are naturally afraid, and like sheep, they have to be led.

Gun control was never about safety: it was just about taking power away from ordinary Americans," said Carson. "It's to make it safe for the police, in a police state.

If somebody else is feeding you—even if you entered the community or the building of your own free will, even if all the doors and gates are currently open or unlocked—you may already be living in your future prison. All it takes is a change in management to turn your Holiday Inn into San Quentin.

Once we have the power to create the world's money, it won't matter who is elected in this or that country." " 'Give me the power to create a nation's money, and I care not who makes its laws'."

To make a revolution, to be a revolutionary, you have to believe in something. Some new master plan for everybody to obey. But to be a rebel, you don't have to believe in anything. You're just a rebel, and you only want to be free.

There was more to the Tea Party than constitutionalism, however. It was a manifestation of America's "folk libertarianism": a widespread oppositional attitude toward authority of all stripes.

It was the face of a general to follow unto death, the face of a teacher at whose feet the wise would fight to sit, the face of a king made for the adoration of worlds: the face of a primarch. And rage made it the face of a beast.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America." -Elizabeth Bisland

According to St. Paul women are not allowed to be public teachers in the church."

Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much power over themselves as not to oppress; great might is a very great snare to many.

The observance of the laws of Christ cannot be less necessary than the observance of the laws of Moses was.

The undutiful behaviour of children towards their parents is a very great provocation to God our common Father; and, if men do not punish it, he will.

All that minister about holy things must have an eye to God's command as their rule and warrant;

Good instructions from parents and ministers will but aggravate our condemnation if we do not live up to them.

It is well for us that our salvation doth not depend upon our being able to solve all these difficulties, nor is the divine authority of the gospels at all weakened by them; for the evangelists are not supposed to write these genealogies either of their own knowledge or by divine inspiration

The superior nature of Christ is proved from his superior name.

When God gives law to us, we must give honour to him; when he speaks, we must bow our heads and worship.