Quotes About Authority

Was it not intelligible that the new generation lost every trace of respect? It doubted parents, politicians, teachers; every decree, every proclamation of the State was read with a dubious eye. The post-war generation emancipated itself with a violent wrench from the established order and revolted against every tradition, determined to mold its own fate, to abandon bygones and to soar into the future.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

A committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

It's not right because it just isn't. You can't go round making up evidence just because you're convinced someone is guilty. You can't be judge and jury; that's not your job. (Liz)

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Cooper took his hat off and swiped his forehead. Finally he spoke. "Well, Frank, to my mind, what a woman does or doesn't do should be up to the woman. She should be who she is, not what others expect her to be." It's her land. As far as I'm concerned she's the boss.

Conquerors didn't make polite requests.

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

The truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks government at will.

Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

His words are the essence of truth...Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.