Quotes About Authority

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.

A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society

It is absolutely necessary that the Christian community be subject in all things to the Sovereign Pontiff if it wishes to be a part of the divinely-established society founded by our Redeemer.

Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.