Quotes About Authority

Messieurs les douaniers, assez de conneries, ouvrez d'une bonne fois le colis, nom de Dieu, merde alors[3].

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

The true state will be oriented against both capitalism and communism. At its center will stand a principle of authority and a transcendent symbol of sovereignty…. The state is the primary element that precedes nation, people, and society. The state – and with the state everything that is properly constituted as political order and political reality – is defined essentially on the basis of an idea, not by naturalistic and contractual factors.

Kingship was the supreme form of government, and was believed to be in the natural order of things. It did not need physical strength to assert itself, and when it did, it was only sporadically. It imposed itself mainly and irresistibly through the spirit.

We will enter into a new phase in which the Leviathan, so to speak, will become the body formed to make possible the incarnation and the manifestation of a principle and a higher order: with that, the collectivistic and irrational aspect of the principle of totalitarianism and authority will be surpassed and will again implement a type of truly spiritual and traditional hierarchical organization.

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic/ape/suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children.

I could understand ignorance, but I could not accept its glorification, still less its right to rule.

When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.

Father is close, Mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao.

When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven." But

The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should've arrested him for it.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and... the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression and obedience.

He demanded from his guests inflexible conformity to schedule, decreeing, for example, precisely when they should write their letters, stroll about the grounds, or ride into the village

The answer to Efficacy lies in the hand of excellent management, reliable systems and good governess"

Anyone who's been under someone's thumb can tell you that power, true power, is never about size or looks.

No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.

That Word, which had created the world out of nothing, was certainly capable of producing the reformation the entire church needed, and to which the Protestant movement remained a preamble.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of reason.

But who is to guard the guards themselves?

The Bible is authoritative not because we accept it as such, but because it is the word of the risen Lord. It has a claim on all people. Its truth is the truth for every person in every place.

The lordship of Christ is basic to our defense of Christianity. Christ now reigns. He is Lord. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to him. That authority is the prerequisite to the command to make disciples. Without that authority, baptism and disciple making in and for the church are meaningless.

Personally, I always feel that survival is cheap at any price and it puzzles me that so many men in authority don't seem to see it that way.