Authority Quote by Bertrand Russell

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

— Anonymous

We've got to do everything possible to improve policing, to go right at implicit bias.

— Hillary Clinton

“people are remarkably receptive to new rules in a new setting. They are surprisingly willing to harm and kill others in the service of…

— Timothy Snyder

“At root, they fail to appreciate that the basic nature of the law and the police, since its earliest origins, is to be a…

— Alex Vitale

Laws matter. With effective implementation and enforcement, good laws can nudge forward positive changes in social and cultural mores.

— Arancha Gonzalez

It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.

— Thomas Sowell

A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a…

— Stephen King

Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become … a far greater aggressor.

— John Hospers

Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government…

— Ferdinand Marcos

Far from curbing terror, we find that draconian laws used by a corrupt and communal police are creating conditions which will only exacerbate the…

— Prashant Bhushan

One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our…

— Barack Obama

“Radical expansions of power are often introduced in this way, by persuading people that they affect just a specific, discrete group. Governments have long…

— Glenn Greenwald