Quotes About Authority

The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority.

The view that government's role is to serve as an umpire to prevent individuals from coercing one another was replaced by the view that government's role is to serve as a parent charged with the duty of coercing

The pharaoh is the incarnation of maat, a term translated by "truth" but whose general meaning is "good order" and hence "right," "justice.

But you must remember that arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken; and, notwithstanding all your wise laws and maxims, we have it in our power, not only to free ourselves, but to subdue our masters, and, without violence, throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet;—

I love man as my fellow; but his sceptre, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.

Ona protests, quietly, that she doesn't believe that at all. She doesn't believe in authority, period, because authority makes people cruel. Salome interrupts: The people with authority or the people without?

En aquest seu afany de poder, en necessitaven d'altres sobre qui exercir aquest poder, i aquests altres som nosaltres.

because in their quest for power, they needed to have those they'd have power over, and those people are us. And they have taught this lesson of power to the boys and men of Molotschna, and the boys and men of Molotschna have been excellent students in that regard.

L'autoritat fa que les persones siguin cruels.

I worked because I could control it.

thirst for independence overruled her need for guidance

The lust for power is combustible thing

the power of language

Man rarely knows his own power

They try to resist change. Power comes from becoming change.

most powerful military in the world is sent to do a task best accomplished by schoolteachers, police forces, persuasion, and time.

Armed college students were telling women to cover their heads.

ambitious cleric position: "Religion makes us all equal; only I decide what religion says.

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

For in truth habit is a violent and treacherous schoolmistress. She establishes in us, little by little, stealthily, the foothold of her authority; but having by this mild and humble beginning settled and planted it with the help of time, she soon uncovers to us a furious and tyrannical face against which we no longer have the liberty of even raising our eyes.

Kanunlar doÄŸru olduklar? için deÄŸil, kanun olduklar? için yürürlükte kal?rlar. Kendilerini dinletmeleri ak?ld??? bir güçten gelir, baÅŸka bir ÅŸeyden deÄŸil. (..) Kanunlardan daha çok, daha a??r, daha geniÅŸ haks?zl?klara yol açan ne vard?r?

Pues la costumbre, verdaderamente es una violenta y traidora institutriz. Poco a poco y con disimulo, establece en nosotros el pie de su autoridad; pero tras este suave y humilde comienzo, una vez asentado y plantado con ayuda del tiempo, pronto nos revela un talante furioso y tiránico contra el que no podemos ya ni alzar la mirada.

By the power bestowed in me by the Ministry of Silly Underpants . . .