Quotes About Authority

Power isn't the big cars and bent slavesPower is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison.

Unchecked Corporate power leads to tyranny just like unchecked Government power.

Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide tactics they would never openly admit to using.

He who despises his own life is soon master of another's.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another.

Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely where does that leave God?

The illegal we do immediately the unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Power tends to connect absolute power connects absolutely.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

The powers that be are ordained of God.

All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Strong government doesn't mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration - in other words, 'good governance.'

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of cars.