Quotes About Authority

I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.

I hope ["reanimated the papacy"] means that the new interest in the pope evokes a new interest in the Church's teaching, of which the pope is the custodian.

Divine Law is not subject nor affected by the majority vote of humanity

There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.

I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.

Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?

We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

There ought to be limits to freedom.