Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

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

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.

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

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

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

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

Be the chief but never the lord.

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

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

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.

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

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.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

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

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.

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.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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

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?

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

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.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Control is the source of strategic power.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

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

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.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

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

You could tell ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

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

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

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

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

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.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

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.

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.