Quotes about Authority
Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I want to dominate the man's world.
— Marina Abramovic
Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.
— Mark Twain
Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.
— Martin Luther
Satan tried to put Jesus Christ on the way to becoming King of the world and Savior of men in a way other than that predetermined by God.
— Oswald Chambers
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?
— Henry David Thoreau
The greater number of men are merely corporals.
— Henry David Thoreau
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.
— Henry David Thoreau
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
— Herman Melville
If men were angels, there would be no need of government.
— James Madison