Quotes About Authority

nadie puede transferir a otro más poder del que encerrare en sí, y nadie sobre sí goza de poder absoluto y arbitrario, ni sobre los demás tampoco, que le permitiere destruir su vida o arrebatar la vida o propiedad ajena.

nobody can be under a law which is not promulgated to him;

cualquiera que sea la forma adoptada por la república, debería el poder dirigente gobernar por leyes declaradas y bien recibidas y no por dictados repentinos y resoluciones indeterminadas, porque entonces se hallarían los hombres en harto peor condición que en el estado de naturaleza

Dominion of life and death, making war, and concluding peace, p. 13. Adam and the patriarchs had absolute power of life and death

where there is no law, there is no freedom;

positive laws of an established government.

Society cannot function if it is every man for himself. By definition, civilization cannot survive that. Those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one.

Emerson said that an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man

We need theology in addition to Scripture because God has authorized teaching in the church, and because we need that teaching to mature in the faith.

That is a way of summarizing the main content of the Bible: "God is Lord" is the message of the Old Testament; "Jesus is Lord" is the message of the New Testament.

La suficiencia simplemente significa que en las Escrituras tenemos todas las palabras de Dios que necesitamos.15 No debemos intentar añadirles algo, ni nos atrevemos a quitarles algo, porque vivimos de toda palabra que viene de Dios.

The philosopher must argue for sense experience by appealing to sense experience. What choice does he have? If he appeals to something else as his final authority, he is simply being inconsistent. But this is the case with any basic commitment. When we are arguing on behalf of an absolute authority, then our final appeal must be to that authority and to no other. A proof of the primacy of reason must appeal to reason; a proof of the necessity of logic must appeal to logic;

Further diffusing its authority, the Commune established executive commissions, the equivalent of ministries, each run by a delegate. Commissions were to convene twice a day at the Hôtel-de-Ville, and these long and increasingly contentious meetings often lasted well into the night and wasted considerable time discussing issues of little to no importance.

Science is to be believed because it can be openly criticized. The criteria for belief is not authority nor logical necessity, but nobody has yet found a more convincing pattern of interpretation.

respect is constantly earned, and shouldn't be assumed because of your position.

Ego sum Attila, flagellum Dei" (Ben de Attila, Tanr?'n?n k?rbac?/I am Attila, the scourge of God)

Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.

You can tell the staff footsteps from the patients'. The staff sound like they're going somewhere.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy