Authority Quotes

"If men were angels no government would be necessary" "The more powerful you are, the more your behavior changes the rules." "If you want power, at some point you will have to convince some humans to trust you" "The office of the sovereign, be it a monarch or an assembly, consisteth in the end for which he was entrusted with the sovereign power, namely the procuration of the safety of the people." "The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long and no longer than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them." "Power is not a means it is an end" "Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit" "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing." "The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." "Intellectuals may like to imagine themselves as people who speak truth to power, but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power" "New faces have more authority than accustomed ones" "I think the government must govern as the citizens allow it to govern." "Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak" "The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane " "Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent" "Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power." "I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect." "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking" "Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will" "Any excuse will serve a tyrant"