Quotes About Authority

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[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may

Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good master, but they mean to be master.

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

With authority comes responsibility.

Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

My grandma was the scariest person I'd ever met, and I could not imagine any man having the ability to terrify me more than her.

Throughout the eighties, kidnapping was deployed as an empty threat by overworked, exhausted parents who wanted to keep us close enough to elude Child Protective Services but far enough away to not ever have to see, hear, or smell anything we were playing with.

Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.

Authority figures do that to me… Put someone slightly taller than me in a hat and I'll do whatever they ask.

While I was very disappointed and angry to find my daughter smoking a cigarette, I'll be damned if she didn't look cooler.

No hables tosco, torpe ni duro a quien amas. Habla suave. Habla dulce. Habla de tal manera que vengan los cambios, y no de tal forma que su corazón se cierre. Reclama cambios cuando así corresponda, pero no olvides que tú eres el primero al que no le deba costar cambiar. No pongas condiciones tales como «si no cambia…», y tú no estés dispuesto a cambiar en eso que exiges en ella cambiar. Eso es simplemente falta de autoridad.

There is no greater equaliser than the stupidity of men, especially when those men have power.

GIOVANNI: But not all policeman think like you. Some of them like being policeman. SARGENT: Sure, some guys buy into it. They get off giving orders. They need to oppress somebody else to feel good about themselves.

Tal como dijo Aretino, «el llanto desconsolado resulta aceptable solo cuando la viuda que lo produce es dueña de un poder que influye, o más aún, es crucial en la vida de los cortesanos. Pero si quien gobierna ha perdido la mayor parte de su poder, el lamento se convierte en una queja insoportable». Lucrecia

La satira è l'arma più efficace contro il potere: il potere non sopporta l'umore, nemmeno i governanti cosiddetti democratici, perché ridere libera l'uomo dalle sue paure.

Politics is the process by which a society chooses the rules that will govern it.

As Henry G. Felsen, a humorist and no medical authority, pointed out quite a while ago, proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself a cold will hang on for a week.