Quotes About Authority

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

I hope that we increasingly shift power to local governments.

It seems to me that we are living in an increasingly unfree society.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

There's value in checks and balances. And there's value in having independence in the governor's office with respect to the legislature.

I believe that being in a position, as a central bank, to influence economic growth does not mean losing independence.

I have told the PCB that I want total independence to work with a free mind and pick the best players, and they have assured me it will be done.

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.

When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

Wie Alice im Wunderland ist sie auf die andere Seite des Lebens gelangt, dorthin, wo die von oben diktierten Gesetze keine Gültigkeit mehr haben.

There was no God but man, no priest but the politician, no prophet but the schoolmaster.

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

Communicative and deliberative approaches work well as ideals and evaluative yardsticks for decision making, but they are quite defenceless in the face of power.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime. If I had such a right over the stick I am about to cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.

Let the legislator say or do what he will, the authority uon which the fate of the subject has its immediate dependence, must, in every case, be the will of the judge.

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

Disputes are not to be decided by the weight of authority, but by the force of reason.

The Soviet authorities didn't outlaw climbing completely; they just shifted it from an individual experience, which they categorized as a "relic of bourgeois alpinism," to a collective endeavour that could be manipulated by the propaganda machine.

The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution , there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.

Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.