Quotes About Authority

What will really matter is whether those in power expect more from people's folly than from their wisdom and independence of mind.

The Roman church's unmistakable claim is that there is only one church and only one faith and that Christendom needs a visible head, a chief shepherd, to guide the church and to care for the faithful with fatherly care. The longing for a lost Western empire, longing for the corpus christianum in which emperor and pope together are guardians of the unity of the Christian West, cannot fade away as long as there is a papacy.

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying. It is no use asking questions, for it is only through obedience that you come to learn the truth.

Authority rests upon his shoulders" (Isa. 9:6).

it will be quite clear what that kingdom is and what it means. It is a kingdom stronger than war and danger, a kingdom of power and authority, signifying eternal terror and judgment to some, and eternal joy and righteousness to others, not a kingdom of the heart, but one as wide as the earth, not transitory but eternal, a kingdom that makes a way for itself and summons men to itself to prepare its way, a kingdom for which it is worth while risking our lives.

There is nothing more restless than men in power.

Have you seen a hungry man with a gun? Of course not. Such things don't exist. It's like saying, have you ever seen a hungry lion? Of course not, because as soon as you did he wouldn't be hungry anymore. The men here with guns are the same. They can shoot, arrest, kill anyone they want. They've done it many times before. If a soldier sees you there's nothing I can do to help. Not even God will save a fool.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Occultism has no Pope.

Man makes his history with the one hand and "holds it up" with the other.

The only people who really know anything about medical science are the nurses, and they never tell; they'd get slapped if they did. But the great doctor, he's a divine idiot and a wise man.

What remains a mystery, however, is not the financial details of his everyday life, but how he, like his comrades Trotsky and Stalin—none of them ever having worked for a living, and none of them having anything in common with the working class—could think they had the right to determine the fate of a great nation, and to carry out their bloody, monstrous experiment.

Hadži?: Gospodine generale, te ?injenice zna i Vrhovna Komanda. A sa brega se dalje vidi, stara je mudrost. General Miši?: Ali pod uslovom da oni na vrhu brega nisu slepi, da imaju bolje o?i od onih što su na strani ili u podnožju. A ja u mnogim prilikama sumnjam u vidovitost onih što gledaju s vrha brega. Ako su im oblaci bliži, ljudi su im manji.

Samo?a je sudbina i prokletstvo svakog ko raspolaže mo?ima koje nema ljudska ve?ina.

Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.

Resistance is useless.

It is like a kingdom. It is the same old thing, just a different name, to keep the peasants in line. A system of the higher ups against the little people. They believe that there is only their God, and that all the others are evil. That there is only one way to be good, and that is the way they teach. And if you do not follow their instructions you will be damned for eternity.

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.

Competency is more valued than seniority; knowledge is more useful than status.