Quotes About Authority

The first thing I'd do [as a president] is de-regulate about 90-percent of the things that they've got regulation on, OK, including duck hunting. We're way over-regulated on everything.

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

Imagination is the mightiest despot.

If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.

It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

I too am a government.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws.

The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

I don't like rules, especially the unwritten ones that say I need to let myself be controlled by my man.

There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

Sometimes I feel like God…when I order someone killed – they die the same day.

The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.