Quotes About Authority

No accountability to God comes to mean no accountability to anyone other than those to whom I choose to be accountable.

The majority of governmental workers wear his or her personality not on their sleeves but on ID badges.

They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.

Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.

There was only one trial of Galileo, and yet it seems there were a thousand—the suppression of science by religion, the defense of individualism against authority, the clash between revolutionary and establishment, the challenge of radical new discoveries to ancient beliefs, the struggle against intolerance for freedom of thought and freedom of speech.

And how many mundanes have ever done that? You are without guile, yet keep your own counsel, which is being a most unusual combination! You are having a slight talent of your own. You invite confidences. I say you are the greatest mundane authority on sorcery the world has ever seen!

His Majesty doesn't even visit the privy except on the advice of the Privy Council.

He was their leader, and a leader must never admit to doubts.

In other words, the intentional miss can be a very subtle form of disobedience.

Defining the norm is its instrument of control over idiosyncrasy.

No one will ever declare you as the expert, the authority, or number one in your market… this is something you need to choose to do for yourself.

Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect. If a subordinate agrees with his superior he is a useless part of the organization.1

A man with an experience is not at the mercy of a man with an opinion.

Parents who let teens run around with unearned adult freedoms are naive and stupid.

Instead of the sin having dominion over you, you gain dominion over it! The

Those who wish to preserve political power structures are often very keen on genetic determinism.

Hobbes encouraged a new interest in human nature and a belief that governments only have the right to rule through contract.

The principle of sovereignty is commonly understood to possess three pri­mary components: 1) The sover­eign possesses absolute authority over the people and territory of a given realm 2) External actors are excluded from possessing or exercising author­ity over the people and territory governed by the sovereign 3) Sovereignty is indivisible-of a single piece, a whole that cannot be disaggregated, shared, or divided between different authorities

These were the idiots shat out by West Point, turds in starched uniforms and glistening high-and-tight haircuts, shiny-foreheaded future corporate executives who used words like envisionment instead of vision.

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

When those responsible for its security decide that something needs to be done, they're going to do it—without any discussion and in spite of any moral opposition.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

There are no answers. There is only obedience.

Imagine , they said, living an existence where the words out of your mouth changed the very fabric of the world around you .