The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
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George Woodcock
(1912–1995) Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, an essayist and literary critic
Source: Mohandas Gandhi (1971), p. 3
Context: Gandhi was a completely unofficial man. He recognized the gulf that lay between the enjoyment of freedom and the exercise of authority. When the Indian National Congress, which he had led intermittently as a movement dedicated to achieving liberation by legal and extra‑legal means, itself grasped for power and became a political party, he withdrew. With an extraordinary persistence he made and kept himself one of the few free men of our time.
“Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.”
Sophocles
(-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
Source: Antigone, Line 660
“All exercise of authority perverts, and submission to authority humiliates.”
Mikhail Bakunin
(1814–1876) Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism
As quoted in Michael Bakunin (1937), E.H. Carr, p. 453
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
(1834–1902) British politician and historian
"Nationality" (1862)
Irving Kristol
(1920–2009) American columnist, journalist, and writer
Foreign Affairs, July 1967.
1960s
“To resist him that is set in authority is evil.”
Ptahhotep
Ancient Egyptian vizier
Maxim no. 31.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)