Quotes About Authority

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.

Politics is activity in relation to power

Whatever power I exert is collegial.

The thing that gives you power also traps you.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.

If you have power, you have to empower.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

I am in charge. I take my own power back.

Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.

Power should be a check on power.

When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.

A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.