Unyielding Authority Quotes

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.

The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as it is written in the Bible, that it is my duty to increase this heritage for which one day I shall be called upon to give an account. Whoever tries to interfere with my task I shall crush.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

“Theocracy” has always been the synonym for a bleak and narrow, if not a fierce and blood-stained, tyranny.

Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.

For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.