The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.
Authority Quotes
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings.
The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
There is nothing too absurd but what authority can be found for it.
The passing of an unjust law is the suicide of authority.
Authority is no stronger than the man who wields it.
Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the Magistrate’s claws.
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 the brave submit.
It is difficult for even the most conscientious person to report facts objectively at all times. The attitudes and beliefs of the authority often affect his perception of the fact, and the way he reports it to us. Moreover, his ignorance of other facts, as we have indicated, may make him unduly impressed with a […]
