Quotes About Authority

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

The media—stenographers to power.

The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Too many kings can ruin an army

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.

Truth is never determined by majority opinion, but by divine revelation.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.