Quotes About Authority

A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

The idea of God's "kingdom" is a weak earthly analogy for the unimaginably vast authority that underlies the universe. All of Creation is his, and he governs every atom, every star. And the energy of it is love.

An emperor is subject to no one but God and Justice.

when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

Slaves dream of freedom, commoners dream of becoming kings, what do kings dream of?

Mannon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

The act of giving a reason is the antithesis of authority. When the voice of authority fails, the voice of reason emerges. Or vice versa.

I am tired of ruling over slaves.

The prince is the first servant of his state.

An educated people can be easily governed.

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Die Partei weiß genau, daß sie nur jene zu fürchten hat, welche die Ideale ernst nehmen, die sie zu verkörpern vorgibt.

Non c'è dittatura senza fedeltà, la fedeltà è la solida roccia sulla quale si erige lo Stato totalitario, che senza di essa affonderebbe nella sabbia; per la democrazia è necessaria invece una certa mancanza di fedeltà, una attitudine più svolazzante, più irresoluta, più fantasiosa.

Ein Hohlkopf an der Spitze einer Großmacht, Nationalrat, und schon werden wir weggeschwemmt, ein Gastmann, und schon sind unsere Ketten durchbrochen, die Vorposten umgangen.

Dann waren Sie der Richter, und ich der Henker.

Die Welt ist in die Hände einer verrückten Irrenärztin gefallen.

ogni tirannia diventa davvero insopportabile solo nella misura in cui è solidamente fondata. Niente al mondo, infatti, l'uomo sopporta con più difficoltà di una giustizia implacabile