Quotes About Authority

In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

All who love Liberty are enemies of the state.

You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you

I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.

OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.

When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it

I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.

Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a relativistic society are those with the least to offer.

The first: limit the rules. The second: Use the least force necessary to enforce those rules.

Many bureaucracies have petty authoritarians within them, generating unnecessary rules and procedures simply to express and cement power. Such people produce powerful undercurrents of resentment around them which, if expressed, would limit their expression of pathological power. It is in this manner that the willingness of the individual to stand up for him or herself protects everyone from the corruption of society.

Rules are there for a reason. You are only allowed to break them if you are a master. If you're not a master, don't confuse your ignorance with creativity or style.

The forces of tyranny expand inexorably to fill the space made available for their existence.

Do not trust anyone who uses the words "disinformation" or "misinformation." What they mean is "opinions that run contrary to mine that I should be allowed to suppress.

Competence beats obedience.

There is no shortage of oppressors among the downtrodden, even if, given their lowly positions, many of them are only tyrannical wannabes.

What shall I say to a faithless brother? The King of the Damned is a poor judge of Being.

Thinkers powerfully influenced by Marx and overwhelmingly influential in much of the academy today (such as Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida) modified the Marxist simplification essentially by replacing "economics" with "power"—as if power were the single motivating force behind all human behavior (as opposed, say, to competent authority, or reciprocity of attitude and action).

sheer physical power is an unstable basis on which to found lasting dominance,