Quotes About Authority

Tyranny always starts auspiciously.

He knew now that corruption is inherent in power, and, even worse, stupidity!

One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

When we have rigid theories about what makes people the way they are and we project our theories onto patients and clients, insisting that our reality is their reality, we do the same thing their parents did. This is the wounding shadow of authority that says, 'I know what your story is and I know its meaning,' and it robs the person of the opportunity to discover this. This is a risk for anyone in a leadership role.

Abel," the chief shouted, "if you don't quit this letter writing, I'm going to have to take serious steps." "Off the end of the old dock, I hope," Grandpa replied as he slammed the door in the chief's face.

general public distrusts academic expertise as soon as it affects real-world topics

Human rights and freedoms protect us against arbitrary government.

It is very difficult, when there are those people who want power over other people and will stop at nothing to get it: it is very difficult for all the people who don't want power, except just power over themselves, to find a way of resisting it.

Power is a corruption, and any society which operates from a power base is a corrupt society.

They did not say it was a punishment on womankind. This was because men were the rulers and women had to suffer for their sins.)

Even if the law still existed, there wasn't going to be anyone around to enforce it.

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

When people say that they can only obey an authority in which they have total confidence, they are looking for an ideal father. . . . If the condition of obedience is emotional trust, the way is open to anarchy and the possible death of the community.

the modern generation being flippant and superficial. He says that we are losing the old ideals of earnest endeavour and true scholarship; and particularly is this falling-off noticeable in our disrespectful attitude towards organized authority. We no longer pay a seemly deference to our superiors. I

Where is the fun of living if you are going to make yourself a slave to all sorts of petty rules?" asked Patty wearily.

How in the world," Georgie demanded, "do you ever make them let you do all these things? I stuck in three innocent little thumb-tacks to-day, and Peters descended upon me bristling with wrath, and said he'd report me if I didn't pull them out." "We never ask," explained Patty. "It's the only way.

Tout empire commence par un grand crime", il avait entendu cette phrase dans une conversation sans savoir de qui elle était mais elle lui avait plu.

Tout empire commence par un grand crime", il avait entendu cette phrases dans une conversation sans savoir de qui elle était mais elle lui avait plu.

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

The Tudors hated to be wrong, and therefore never were.

Sovereigns did not have the luxury of second-guessing or all future commands could be questioned. That could never be. God did not allow his anointed to be wrong.

In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power.

Lydia is dubious at first, but if you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?