Quotes About Authority

It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.

The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word.

One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.

That is the voice of God because its the voice of truth and experience.

A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.

In the Land of Truth, my friend, the man with one fact is King.

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa.

The fundamental truth is that the guys with the guns matter more than most.

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

Adhere to the Truth rather than to the personality, and take to heart the Truth rather than the authority of another.

The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren't many people who can be put in high positions who won't start thinking highly of themselves.

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.