Quotes About Authority

The sword must yield to the toga, Cicero had told the Roman Senate, and the friars in the Philippines thought a cassock was as good as a toga. But

Meanwhile, they who were so carelessly disposing of people's fates, he who commanded the legal murders, he who violated justice and made use of the law to maintain himself by force, slept in peace.

In terms of the spaceship Earth, the wrong crew is in command, and it's time for a mutiny.

There are no tyrants if there are no slaves.

Comrades, I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how. But what is extraordinarily important is this: who will count the votes, and how.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything.

Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.

People who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Claro está que cuando se ha eliminado la estabilidad laboral de quienes enseñan se puede controlar con más facilidad lo que enseñan.

Como no se los consideraba aptos para la democracia, pensaban que era mejor que estuvieran sujetos a un poder dictatorial.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

The fraternity of the henpecked.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

L'editore cavalca il turbine e dirige la tempesta.

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

The Internal Revenue Service is everything the so-called tax protesters said it was; nonresponsive, unable to withstand scrutiny, tyrannical, and oblivious to the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution.

There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality—countermoves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

we will manage the worlds finance whether world likes it or not.

Every country has the government it deserves.

Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its ministers. To annihilate it or to submit it to the discussion of all individuals, is the same thing.