Quotes About Authority

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Those willing to accept the tranquility of servitude, had best be prepared to crouch to his knee's, and lick the hand that feeds him.

Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

The board might win such showdowns in its role as the public's champion. But Adams sensed that victories of this sort would be pyrrhic. They would so poison the atmosphere that further influence, beyond the narrow boundaries of the commission's legal authority

Oskar has made it his business to know the full face of the system, the rabid face behind the veil of bureaucratic decency.

Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?

I perceive , Sir , you are one of those who love an authority more than a reason

The end of the world will be legal.

When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, then society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate.

Books that speak like God speak with too much authority to entertain us. Those that speak like good men hold us by their human charm; we grow by finding ourselves in them.

Both threat and promise often come from the same political source.

When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, the society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility

As the religious authorities often say, the institution is human, while the substance of the religion is transcendent.

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Remember how they outlawed acid soon as they found out it was a channel to somethin they didn't want us to see? Why should information be any different?

Because everybody on the school board, and the railroad, and the PTA and paper mill had to be somebody's mother or father, whether really or as a member of a category; and there was a point at which the reflex to their covering warmth, protection, effectiveness against bad dreams, bruised heads and simple loneliness took over and made worthwhile anger with them impossible.

It took me till I was lying among the Rats and Vermin, upon the freezing edge of a Future invisible, to understand that my name had never been my own,— rather belonging, all this time, to the Authorities, who forbade me to change it, or withhold it, as 'twere a Ring upon the Collar of a Beast, ever waiting for the Lead to be fasten'd on. . . .

When power corrupts, it keeps a log of its progress, written into that most sensitive memory device, the human face.

he gets on this ARPAnet trip, and I swear it's like acid, a whole 'nother strange world—time, space, all that shit." "So when they gonna make it illegal, Fritz?" "What. Why would they do that?" "Remember how they outlawed acid soon as they found out it was a channel to somethin they didn't want us to see? Why should information be any different?

Pointsman is finding it much easier to of late to slip into a l'etat c'est moi frame of mind--who else is doing anything?

The simpler explanation,' Emerson with a distinct uvular component in his Sigh, 'may be that none of you people has ever known a moment of Transcendence in his life, nor would recognize one did it walk up and bit yese in the Arse,— and in the long sorry Silence, grows the suspicion that Jesuits are but the latest instance of a true Christian passion evaporated away, leaving no more than the usual hollow desires for Authority and mindless O-bedience.