Danger Quote by Fanny Kemble

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

— Aristotle

“When you suddenly command some unusual, unexpected course of action, then even if it is something you have hitherto forbidden, even if for the…

— Augustine of Hippo

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your…

— Francesco Guicciardini

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or…

— Winston Churchill

[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really…

— Steve Jobs

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

— Anonymous

To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind…

— Anonymous

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

— Alexander Hamilton

What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“When occasions present themselves in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons…

— Alexander Hamilton

In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.

— Philip K. Dick