Quotes About Authority

School is pure psycology warfare.

It has ever been the tendency of power to add to itself, to enlarge its sphere, to encroach beyond the limits set for it; and where the habit of resisting such encroachment is not fostered, and the individual is not taught to be jealous of his rights, individuality gradually disappears and the government or State becomes the all-in-all.

If the individual has the right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny.

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

I think that having 24 people around the Cabinet table whose future depends upon maintaining the good will of one man is fundamentally undemocratic and it would be far better if Cabinet ministers were accountable to the Parliamentary Labour Party.

The key to any progress is to ask the question why? All the time. Why is that child poor? Why was there a war? Why was he killed? Why is he in power? And of course questions can get you into a lot of trouble, because society is trained by those who run it, to accept what goes on. Without questions we won't make any progress at all.

When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.

For those without personal wealth or political authority a trade union card and a ballot paper are the only two routes to political power.

Trump's attacks against the judiciary reflect his view that only he should be able to decide what he can and cannot do.

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan's first year.

The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law will not interfere to compel him. The master must do his own flogging, as in the case of an ox or a horse.

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously.

I refuse for any person or organized group to dictate to me what God is. That is really the height of insufferable hubris. I believe in just immediately putting to death or just putting over the cliff people who assume they know about God.

That's one reason I retired as a sergeant and not at a higher rank... I refused to 'play the game' the way the bosses wanted the game played. It is a decision that has cost me money in retirement pay but one that I have never regretted.

Mum was nuts - you'd get a bucket of water over you if you refused to get out of bed.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Constitution grants Congress clear jurisdiction with regard to U.S. citizenship and immigration matters.

The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.

I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well.