Unquestioned Authority Quotes

I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosphere where it's possible that he doesn't get enough feedback, enough people rolling their eyes at him. It's a danger more in show business than it is with wealth.

We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any votes.

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.

In a chaotic world, fundamentalism can be a moral compass.

Cambodians dare do nothing of themselves without leave of the king, which is why Christians cannot be made without the king’s approval …. Nothing is done that the king knoweth not.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

They who among men obtain the chiefest Dominion, cannot be subject to Laws properly so called, that is to say, to the will of men, because to be chief, and subject, are contradictories;

Atheism is like the highest level of white privilege. It's like having a black belt in white privilege.

The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The two are identical; the one necessarily implying the other.

Truths turn into dogmas the moment they are disputed.

There is only one decisive victory; the last.

The unfathomable isn’t something our media masters can tolerate. An unsurpassing self-assurance in their own moral and intellectual wisdom isn’t allowed to be punctured by the complex inexplicability of the real world. So to maintain the patina of omniscience they must fit the story into one of their narratives.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.

The kingdom is not divisible. Regnum non est divisible.

Can a Congress worker ever think of becoming a Prime Minister? No. Because that seat is reserved by birth in that party.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

An authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it.

I was coddled, and there is a permissiveness that sometimes goes on with people who are successful as actors.

'King of the Cruiserweights' is not just something I say. Let me be straight. I am the king. You can see that. It's undeniable.

... a brilliant tyrant surrounded by mediocrities.

I asked no odds and I give none. A guy got in my way, I run over him.

All government is ultimately and essentially absolute.