Quotes About Authority

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

We live under a government of men—and morning newspapers.

The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

There were two keys to securing sexual rights for women. The first was to reform the marriage laws, which gave husbands almost absolute authority over their wives. Marriage-free-lovers insisted-should be a voluntary and equal association between two people who shared a spiritual affinity.

There was a time when a young person rose when an adult entered the room, would not consider calling adults by their first names, and automatically came to the door to pick up a date. I am not nostalgic for this time. Socially acceptable behavior also included discrimination of every sort, sweeping family problems under the rug, and establishing household order through intimidation and submissive deference to Dad the All-Knowing Patriarch.

The more someone supported the regime, the more he was scared of it.

There's nothing to protect us. No state, no government, no law, no human rights. Animals have more rights than we do.

Kingship seemed cursed to drive many men mad.

el brusco despertar no fue lo que ella había dicho, sino la constatación de que los adultos pueden equivocarse, pueden ser estúpidos, ineptos y holgazanes en su labor, y que no siempre te creen aunque les estés contando la verdad. Y cuando estas personas estúpidas e ineptas que no ven más allá de sus narices tienen poder sobre ti, cuando no se creen lo que les estás contando, pueden ocurrir cosas malas

SCOOP: Peter, do people like you ever wonder what it's all for? PETER: People like you run the world. You decide what it's all for.

Give a man an inch and he'll call himself a ruler,

Backstage controls the show, not the audience."

Within the walls of Love Hall, Lord Loveall could command this kind of respect.

We cannot permit strong chieftains or groups of young Huns to attempt the founding of customs that serve only their purpose. Customs are of nations, not of individuals.

4. The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, and obeyed, dependeth not upon the testimony of any man, or Church; but wholly upon God (who is truth itself) the author thereof: and therefore it is to be received, because it is the Word of God.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

I'd better get back to work. I have empires to topple, people to fire, lives to ruin...

A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

Should five slaves dictate to a king? If five baboons bark, must the black-maned lion tremble?

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

Power, no matter what kind of power it is, without a foundation in truth, is a dictatorship, more or less and in one way or another, for it is always based on man's fear of the social responsibility and personal burden that "freedom" entails.