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| Det är inte visdom, utan myndigheter, som stiftar lagar. | Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) |
| När aktoriteter varnar dig för farorna med sex så finns det en viktig läxa att lära. Ha inte sex med auktoriteter. | Matt Groening (1954-) |
| Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for | Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is basic | Arthur Sylvester |
| Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today. | C. Edwin Baker |
| Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians | Chester Bowles (1901-) |
| Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. | Clement Attlee (1803-1857) |
| The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. | Daniel P. Moynihan (1927-2003) |
| The problem is authority. But these Vatican officials seem unable to understand authority except as authoritarianism. | David Tracy |
| Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism | Earl Warren (1891-1974) |
| Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens. | Edgar A. Suter |
| A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government | Edward Abbey (1927-1989) |
| The throne is a glorious sepulcher | Empress Theodora |
| Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by | Eric Johnston |
| Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. | Fred Woodworth |
| When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence | Gary Lloyd |
| Here was this vast machinery of government and they didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle. | Gen Maxwell D. Taylor |
| The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority | George Bancroft (1800-1891) |
| The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie. | George Deukmejian (1928-) |
| A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter | George Grenville (1712-1770) |
| A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity. | George Grenville (1712-1770) |
| The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it. | Gerry Spence (1929-) |
| Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. | Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) |
| Government is not the doctor. It is the disease. | H. S. Ferns |
| The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade | Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) |
| I am against government by crony. | Harold L. Ickes (1874-1952) |
| Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. | Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863) |
| Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people | Henry Clay (1777-1852) |
| I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology. | James Breithaupt |
| I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will | James I of England (1566-1625) |
| The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves. | James Knox Polk (1795-1849) |
| The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil. | James Monroe (1758-1831) |
| A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top | James Reston (1909-1995) |
| The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on [them]. | James W. Fulbright |
| Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. | John Perry Barlow |
| No government could survive without champagne. In the throat of our diplomatic people [it] is like oil in the wheels of an engine. | Joseph Dargent |
| If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. | Keith Richards (1943-) |
| It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else | Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) |
| The highest duty is to respect authority | Leo XIII (1810-) |
| Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. | Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) |
| That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support | Lysander Spooner |
| But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. | Lysander Spooner |
| Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification | Malcolm Wallop (1933-) |
| When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. | Marquis De Lafayette (1757-) |
| Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations. | Martin L. Gross |
| When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities. | Matt Groening (1954-) |
| I do not rule Russia; ten thousand clerks do | Nicholas I |
| Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else. | Nicolas Walter |
| The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. | P. J. O'Rourke (1947-) |
| The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. | Patrick Henry (1736-1799) |
| A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. | Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) |
| Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are. | Phil Gramm (1942-) |
| Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination. | Richard Sennett |
| Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt | Robert Lindner (1916-) |
| The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults. | Robert Nozick |
| It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest. | Robert Purvis |
| Democrats give away their old clothes; Republicans wear theirs. Republicans employ exterminators; Democrats step on the bugs. Democrats eat the fish they catch; Republicans stuff 'em and hang 'em on the wall. | Sean Donlon |
| She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood. | Simon Hoggart (1946-) |
| You can delegate authority, but not responsibility. | Stephen W. Comiskey |
| Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience | Thomas C. Haliburton (1796-1865) |
| Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure | Thomas Erskine |
| Think for yourself and question authority | Timothy Leary (1920-1996) |
| Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government and I will lead it as party of government. | Tony Blair (1953-) |
| Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. | Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) |
| If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. | Yugoslavian Proverb |
| The man whose authority is recent is always stern. | Aeschylus (525 f.Kr.-456 f.Kr.) |
| There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth | African Proverb |
| It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. | Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) |
| Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments | Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) |
| It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States | Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) |
| The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense." | Bill Clinton (1946-) |
| If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure. | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy. | Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) |
| If we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a | Daniel Webster (1782-1852) |
| The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. | Eugene McCarthy (1916-) |
| A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once. | Frank A. Clark |
| The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else | Frederic Bastiat |
| I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. | George Carlin (1937-) |
| The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. | Golda Meir (1898-1978) |
| The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people | Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) |
| Government is essentially immoral. | Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) |
| The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. | Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978) |
| All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. | James A. Garfield (1831-1881) |
| Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. | James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) |
| If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
| Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen | John Marshall (1755-1835) |
| For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step. | Kofi Annan (1938-) |
| One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt. | Lee Iacocca (1924-) |
| Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. | Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) |
| If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand | Milton Friedman (1912-) |
| The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness | Niels Bohr (1885-1962) |
| I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government | Lord Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) |
| If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. | P. J. O'Rourke (1947-) |
| Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) |
| Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. | Peter F. Drucker (1909-) |
| I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. | Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919-2000) |
| President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people. | Ralph Nader (1934-) |
| Good government is good politics. | Richard J. Daley (1902-1976) |
| Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. | General Robert E. Lee (1918-1870) |
| In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. | Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-) |
| We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents | Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) |
| From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion? | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose. | Tony Blair (1953-) |
| Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. | Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) |
| Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. | Walter J. Lippmann (1889-1974) |
| The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. | William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-) |
| The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. | Woody Allen (1935-) |
| Authority is quite degrading | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. | George Carlin (1937-) |
| There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth | African Proverb |
| Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. | Yugoslavian Proverb |
| Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt | Robert Lindner (1916-) |
| All authority belongs to the people | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. | Peter F. Drucker (1909-) |
| He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. | General Robert E. Lee (1918-1870) |
| We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| The man whose authority is recent is always stern. | Aeschylus (525 f.Kr.-456 f.Kr.) |
| Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade | Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) |
| It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. | Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) |
| The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. | Patrick Henry (1736-1799) |
| I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. | Woody Allen (1935-) |
| The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority | George Bancroft (1800-1891) |
| Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. | Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-) |
| They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program. | George W. Bush (1946-) |
| The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Good government is no substitute for self-government | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Authority forgets a dying king | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority. | Bill Maher (1956-) |
| The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime | Emma Goldman (1869-1940) |
| New faces have more authority than accustomed ones. | Euripides (480 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. | Joyce Carol Oates (1938-) |
| Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law. | L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) |
| Great men in judicial places will never want authority | Proverb |
| I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority. | Rita Mae Brown (1944-) |
| Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. | General Robert E. Lee (1918-1870) |
| Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain: By this the fool commands the wise, The noble-with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make t | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| The state produced in the laboratory may be likened to a light doze, compared to the profound slumber induced by the preponent authority system of a national government. | Stanley Milgram |
| The key to the behavior of subjects lies not in pent-up anger or aggression, but in the nature of their relationship to authority. They have given themselves to the authority; they see themselves as instruments for the execution of his wishes; once so defined, they are unable to break free. | Stanley Milgram |
| The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the public’s general lack of information vital for responsible citizenship in a democracy. The news media has become an aspect of show business, offering merely infotainment. It has evolved into an entity that tends to function as a public relations agency for wealthy and powerful multinational corporations, members of Congress, the current Presidential Administration including the administrations that preceded it. The news media is being utilized as a political tool of suppression and propaganda by those in power, and propaganda is psychological in nature. Full of half-truths and utter misinformation, it’s an arrogant and very commercial strategy that is implemented because it appeals to emotions, fear being the main one relentless talk of national security, personal and community safety, can trigger childhood insecurities and indoctrinated views of authority. | Teresa Stover (1980-) |
| The most obvious and condescending tell-tale sign that manipulation is taking place is that no one takes responsibility for the actions of the administration, it’s always some other department who is to blame and never the people who have authority, it’s always some nameless foot-soldiers, a “few bad apples,” when we all know that such excuses don’t hold water, we know who gave the order for soldiers to engage in the abhorrent techniques of torture, we know who told subordinates in the corporation(s) to “fudge the numbers” and “be creative,” we know full well who makes these decisions. President Truman said, “The buck stops here,” now the buck effectively floats over many people never stopping anywhere, so there’s no one to blame. | Teresa Stover (1980-) |
| Understand that all battles are waged on an unconscious level before they are begun on the conscious one, and this battle is no different. The power structure wishes us to believe that the only options available are those which they present to us, we know this is simply not true, and therefore we must redefine the terrain of this conflict, and clearly, it is a conflict of worldviews and agendas. | Teresa Stover (1980-) |
| All authority belongs to the people | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| He who has no bread has no authority | Turkish Proverb |
| The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time. | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |