Quotes About Authority

Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way , when and if you are an architect?" "Yes." "My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

My dear fellow, who will let you? That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word We.

There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men (pg. 101).

All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that groups of men are vacuums. Great big empty nothings. They say we can't visualize a total nothing. Hell, sit at any committee meeting. The point is only who chooses to fill that nothing. It's a tough battle. The toughest. It's simple enough to fight any enemy, so long as he's there to be fought. But when he isn't. . .

It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.

We are fast approaching the stage of ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission.

Everything that isn't permitted by The Law is forbidden.

He demanded of all people the one thing he had never granted anybody: obedience.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.

When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.

Get the hell out of my way! Said by John Galt as the leaders of the country tried to make him become their dictator.

The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!

the Council of Schools has said that there are no mysteries.

A thinking child cannot conform. Thought does not bow to authority.

Who pays for the orgy?

Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do what the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine that attacked (or "limited") reason, which did not also preach submission to the power of some authority.

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