Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and then maybe I bring sort of my knowledge of power into play.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

I feel strange when I get applauded by people in power… because it’s obvious that it’s them I’m criticizing, but they can’t show that in front of the cameras. It’s quite funny sometimes.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

What I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It’s all a reflection of your relationship with the president. I mean, Kennedy never let Johnson in the office.

People that’s in power – the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally – they got influence over the messaging and the narrative in the media.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.