Quotes About Authority

Authority, I say, is held by a person or persons who lead humans to a fuller exercise of their freedom to accomplish human tasks.

If social authority aims at united action, epistemic authority aims at the truth, which is as necessary to human flourishing as social authority.

Authority," argues Molnar, "is the guarantee that man is not totally subordinated to authority," or, better, to a single overreaching authority that would extinguish all others.

The most basic office we hold is indeed that of divine image. Respect for authority must begin with this authoritative office, in which all the other offices find their focus and point of origin. This indeed is the grain of truth to be found in the contemporary ideology of human rights, as manifested in both practical jurisprudence and popular culture.

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The first thing I am going to tell my successor is, don't trust the military men – even on military matters." JFK

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The dehumanization of those inside Mt. Carmel, coupled with the thoroughgoing demonization of Koresh, made it easier for those in authority to develop tactics that seemed organized for disaster.

But what man has made, man can un-make.

Our government may at some time be in the hands of a bad man. When in the hands of a good man it is all well enough. . . . We ought to have our government so shaped that even when in the hands of a bad man we shall be safe.

We ought to have our government so shaped that even when in the hands of a bad man we shall be safe.

Everybody in the south," wrote Douglass, "wants the privilege of whipping somebody else.

But being a child, he'd never been asked for his opinion.

grandmother is a fearsome character.

You MUST take your pills. If you fail to take your pills, every single person in your dormitory will be PUNISHED for all ETERNITY

will then dispose of the chocolate by eating it. Anyone who refuses to hand over their chocolate to me will not be EXPELLED. They will be held upside down by their ankles and dangled out of the window until they hand over their chocolate. After I have eaten their chocolate, then, and only then, will they be EXPELLED.

Eric's grandmother is a fearsome character

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It is the perfect job for this busybody, who loves nothing more than bossing folk around.

never allows you to stay up to watch your favourite television programme

The Queen peered down at Jack and mused, "Aren't you a little young to be in my Royal Air Force?

GET OUT! GET OUT OF MY CLASSROOM YOU VILE LITTLE GIRL! AND TAKE THAT DISGUSTING CREATURE WITH YOU!" snarled the teacher.

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The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it, simply because they couldn't believe any government would tell such an absurd story unless it were true.