Quotes about Authority
Messi would never tell a coach who he has to play or not. I think he not only lacks the power to do that but also is not humanly capable of saying that.
— Carlos Tevez
Many feel that in today's climate some of those in authority are exercising, in effect, a self-serving, 'ends justify the means' mindset as well, and that, in turn, empowers them to do the same.
— Martin Luther King III
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
— Thomas Jefferson
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
— Thomas Jefferson
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
— Thomas Jefferson
In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
— Thomas Jefferson
Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
— Thomas Jefferson
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
— Thomas Jefferson