Quotes About Authority

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.

Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place"

To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

Beware the ridiculous. It will one day rule you.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.