Quotes About Authority

The Legislative has no Right to absolute arbitrary Power over the Lives and Fortunes of the People: Nor can Mortals assume a Prerogative not only too high for Men but for Angels, and therefore reserv'd for the Exercise of the Deity alone.

Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain: By this the fool commands the wise, The noble-with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make t

The public do not know enough to be experts, yet know enough to decide between them.

And prove their doctrine orthodox,By apostolic blows and knocks.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.

Moral influence means persuading another that one can make that other more uncomfortable than that other can make oneself.

The queen of night, whose large command Rules all the sea, and half the land

AUTHORITY intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain By this the fool commands the wise, The noble with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make the base submit

It is no diminution of power not to be able to do things which are no object of power.

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered

Power is always gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

5 LETTER FROM PUZUR-NUMUSHDA TO IBBI-SIN To Ibbi-Sin my king speak; thus says your servant Puzur-Numushda: The messenger of Ishbi-Erra

Cultural assertion follows material success; hard power generates soft power.

Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.

Hanem ezentúl kevésbé tisztelem a királyokat, látva, hogy az es?nek ?k sem tudnak parancsolni.

Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is fallible, or that our own blank, innocent ignorance can destroy the pure, the good, and the loved are moments the very memory of which constitutes the beginning of a strategy to live in a world where such horrors exist.

The father-mother-son that makes up the basic family unit, at least as the Family has described it for centuries now, represents a power structure, a structure of strong powers, mediating powers, and subordinate powers, as well as paths for power developments and power restrictions.

Son, this whole town's my personal urinal. Makes me feel like I own it, pissin' all over the fuckin' thing.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Arbitrary governing hath no alliance with God.