Significant Authority Quotes
A Collection of Authority Quotes Reveals Much About Today’s World. Domination & Conquest is Our Paradigm Now & by Illuminating Minds We can be Free of Tyranny Forever.
Authority Quotes offer an insight into those in actual positions of authority. Our government abuses its power, and its forcing Americans to consider revolution.
”Remember, there’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.”
– Frank Zappa
”To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.”
– Virginia Woolf
”Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.
”There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good zeitgeist, but they mean to be zeitgeist.”
– Daniel Webster
”It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine’s correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it.
”But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconscious convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.”
– Ludwig Von Mises ‘
‘…So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.”
– Voltaire
”We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”
– Stewart L. Udall
”Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
– Harry S. Truman
”For this future emancipation, we have to rule out ideologies that aim at reinforcing the state, the police and controls in general, and at reducing liberty.”
– André Thirion
”If I want to be free from any other man’s dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.”
– William Graham Sumner
”The first great struggle for liberty was in the realm of thought. The libertarians reasoned that freedom of thought would be good for mankind; it would promote knowledge, and increased knowledge would advance civilization.
”But the authoritarians protested that freedom of thought would be dangerous, that people would think wrong, that a few were divinely appointed to think for the people.”
– Charles T. Spradling
”Our constitutions purport to be established by ‘the people’, and, in theory, ‘all the people’ consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this consent of ”the people” exists only in theory.
”It has no existence in fact. Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.”
– Lysander Spooner
”A man’s liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.”
– Herbert Spencer
”One thing about a police state, you can always find the police.”
– L. Neil Smith
”Socialism means equality of income or nothing… under Socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not.
” If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.”
– George Bernard Shaw
”Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on ”The Truth” always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.”
– Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.