Quotes about Authority
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
- Benjamin Disraeli
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
- CS Lewis
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
- CS Lewis
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
- DH Lawrence
The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.
- Ezra Taft Benson
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.
- George Eliot
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
- GK Chesterton
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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