Quotes About Authority

The exercise of power always presupposes resistance.

The exercise of power always presupposes resistance. Power is never evident until two or more elements are in opposition.

Power is a concept that belongs only in finite play.

If we defer to titled winners, it is only because we regard ourselves as losers. To do so is freely to take part in the theater of power.

Freedom of speech is a foundation of democracy, because without it citizens can't share their observations on folly and injustice or collectively challenge the authority that maintains them.

Imposed silence is the first consequence of the Master Player's triumph.

religion ceases to be religion when its poetic authority is recast as civic authority.

Society is a manifestation of power.

Father of the Constitution," said: "The accumulation of all power – legislative, executive, and judiciary – in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

To rule the world, the Antichrist (or anyone) would clearly need a world government.

They must wait. The gates were closed. The keys that could open them were in other hands.

The New York Times Review of Books is toilet paper. Used.

Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.

Except for a roll of Harding's eyes, everyone ignored me, which is the way I liked it when I had to hang around with senior officers. They had a way of thinking up ideas that got you killed and them promoted.

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

What is written is more influential than what is said.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

They're all about power and control. They're the tyrannical thumb pressing a head down to the ground, demanding blind obeisance. They want you to only listen to the word of their leader, instead of the loving word of God.

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