Quotes About Authority

Power is the ability to influence and control.

This placement of the authority to "stop violence" into the hands of the police produces a crisis of meaning. The police are often the source of violence, especially in the lives of women, people of color, trans women, sex workers, and the poor. And the police enforce the laws of the United States of America, which is one of the greatest sources of violence in the world.

Steuben explained to his friend, "You say to your soldier, 'Do this,' and he does it; but I am obliged to say, 'This is the reason why you ought to do that,' and then he does it.

Protestantism's evolution away from hierarchy and authority has enormous consequences for America and the world. On the one hand, the democratization of religion runs parallel to political democratization. The king of England, questioning the pope, inspires English subjects to question the king and his Anglican bishops. Such dissent is backed up by a Bible full of handy Scripture arguing for arguing with one's kIng. This is the root of self-government in the English-speaking world.

The fact that a child that age was allowed to go out looking for the four-legged serial killer that the king has dispatched his personal gun-bearer to track down speaks of an older, hands-off parenting style.

a man without birth, without courage, without conduct. For my part, I declare, sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master.

With only sixty men to hold off four hundred Americans, the British commander of the redoubt, a Major Campbell, surrendered to Laurens. Afterward, when an unhinged captain from New Hampshire threatened Campbell with his bayonet, Hamilton stepped between them, because rules were rules.

What are you going to do? Will you soon begin the siege of the Capital?

It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing you hold down the adjoining.

Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.

El dictador necesita multitudes vivientes, pero también muchedumbres de cadáveres.

Who controls everything? Old men of this type. Without needs. They don't need therefore they have. I need, therefore I don't have.

Look here, because they were born you think they have to turn out to be men? That's just an old-fashioned idea. And who tells them that? A big organization. One more big organization. A big organization makes dough or it doesn't last. If it makes dough it's for dough.

In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power.

Pretpostavimo da sam ja apsolutno u pravu a da monsignor, na primjer, ima potpuno krivo. Ako sam ja u pravu, problem suvislosti svijeta, i sva odgovornost za nju, postaju moji.

Compulsory veneration is bound to come out as rebellion, hatred, and blasphemy.

In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While

The Dictator must have living crowds and also a crowd of corpses.

U svakoj zajednici postoji vrsta ljudi koja je neobi?no opasna za druge ?lanove zajednice. Ne mislim na kriminalce. Za njih imamo kaznene sankcije. Mislim na vo?e. Najopasniji ljudi bez iznimke idu za vlaš?u. Dok pozitivnom gra?aninu uskipljuje srce u salonima indignacije. Gospodine uredni?e, za nas je neizbježno da budemo roblje onima koji posjeduju mo? da nas unište.

Which came first, the protest or the law?

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

Nie mo?emy mówi? o autorytecie tam, gdzie nie ma nic, prócz dowodów.

Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane.