Quotes About Authority

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

When you vote, you only change the names of the cabinet. When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new epochs, abolish old orders and set up new.

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

Well, what do they all amount to, these kings and captains and bishops and lawyers and such like? They just leave you in the ditch to bleed to death; and the next thing is, you meet them down there, for all the airs they give themselves.

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

ANARCHIST. I told you to begin by abolishing the State. Now we are all lost.

When you go to women," says Nietzsche, "take your whip with you.

And if I am further pressed to declare straightforwardly whether I mean to disparage these authorities [who criticize Ibsen], I reply, pointedly, that I do. I affirm that such criticisms are written by men who know as much of political life as I know of navigation.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

The power to exterminate is too grave to be left in any hands but those of a thoroughly Communist government.

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

Authority abuse is any situation in which an authority figure's influence eclipses that of God's or disrupts God's divine order of authority.

Remember, though, that any time a man's voice is stronger than God's voice, it stunts spiritual growth

Christ died so that men and women could come directly to Him, and while we should maintain respect for those in authority over us, we should not use them as our rites of passage to hear from God.

church. Therefore, people will believe whatever is preached because they don't read the Word of God for themselves.

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it.

We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass.

And although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighteen, when I realized the state had a legal right to execute me.

If we could only find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.

Government want to tell you things you can't say because they're against the law, or you can't say this because it's against a regulation, or here's something you can't say because its a...secret; You can't tell him that because he's not cleared to know that. Government wants to control information and control language because that's the way you control thought, and basically that's the game they're in.

The things they don't tell you in schools these days, geez. Have a look at your owners. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything.

You know what I do? I steal things. Fuck 'em! I grab a handful of candy bars and six magazines and head for the gate.