Authority Shift Quotes

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

For thousands of years, humans believed that authority came from the gods. Then, during the modern era, humanism gradually shifted authority from deities to people.

Justice often means taking power from some who have it and giving it to some who do not.

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

Leadership and power vacuums will be filled.

Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.

Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.

I don't know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out.

I think there's always an adjustment when somebody new is runnings things, from the top down.

The Great White Father now calls you his brother, not his children.

All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control,' he said. 'We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God.

It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.

I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up

Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.

The more power you have, the more surely it will be taken from you before you are ready to give it up.

Either the government will be given to us or we will take it.

When you're the person who's kind of in charge of everything a lot of the time, it's sometimes nice to get bossed around. It's sometimes nice to have somebody say, "This is what I want you to do" and to stretch your abilities.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

My first day as a manager was at Digital Equipment in Atlanta. I was a sales rep. I was promoted from among my peers, so one day I was a peer, and the next day I was their boss.

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.