Quotes About Authority

I]t is the powerful who write the laws of the world-- and the powerful who ignore these laws when expediency dictates.

Not everything written by mainstream scholars serves the powers that be, but very little of it challenges such powers.

one found that they complained less about overbearing control than about the absence of responsible control.

When Wells-Barnett wrote in 1900, "It is now, even as it was in the days of slavery, an unpardonable sin for a Negro to resist a White man no matter how unjust or unprovoked the White man's attack may be," we might say that this still can be the case in certain situations and locales—especially if the White man is dressed in a blue uniform and wears a badge.

Marxism offers the kind of subversive truths that cause fear and trembling among the high and mighty, those who live atop a mountain of lies.

Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency - which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndaclist revolution.

The loudest and most authoritative voices in the debate over psychedelics in the 1960s were precisely the people who knew the least about them.

Institutions generally like to mediate the individual's access to authority

There is so much authority that comes out of the primary mystical experience that it can be threatening to existing hierarchical structures.

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.

Sin is the reason we abuse our authority.

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it.

Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

My decision has been that anyone who breaks the law will be prosecuted. If you're a parent or you're a single person or you happen to have a family, if you cross between the ports of entry, we will refer you for prosecution. You've broken U.S. law.

Every body and thing has politics involved. Every. Single. Thing.

If you are a real leader, every single thing is your fault.

Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.

We begin the process of being born again through exercising faith in Christ, repenting of our sins, and being baptized by immersion for the remission of sins by one having priesthood authority.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.