Quotes About Authority

The Latin name for the fallacy of appealing to an illegitimate authority or expert is argumentum ad verecundiam, which means "argument to shame.

Over the pope as the expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there still stands one's own conscience, which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority.

Lieutenant Commander Galloway [behind a chain link fence at a ball field]: Do you know what a code red is? Lieutenant Kaffee, standing on the ball field, looks at her in silence with a blank expression on his face. Galloway: What a pity.

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.

We have a natural resentment toward government, which was how we were born

You can't handle the truth!" - Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men.

LTJG Kaffee: I want the truth! Col Jessup: You can't handle the truth!

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!

Any organization consisting of three or more members existing for more than three weeks must only be serving the interests of its strongest member(s).

Même si tu te trouves en position de force, ne le montre pas, et surtout ne t'en sers jamais!! Le fait d'avoir l'autorité ultime et la responsabilité directe de l'accès à une source d'eau ou à une rivière, ne t'autorise pas à priver les autres d'eau.

In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

all authority of governments on earth originates from the Sovereignty of God alone.

When God says to me, "obey," then I humbly bow my head, without compromising in the least my personal dignity, as a man.

If General McClellan did not want to use the army, he would like to borrow it.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.