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  1. Leo Tolstoy _ The Kingdom of God Is Within

    All the methods of appointing authorities that have been tried, divine right, and election, and heredity, and balloting, and assemblies and parliaments and senate-all have proved ineffectual. Everyone knows that not one of these methods attains the aim either of entrusting power only to the incorruptible, or of preventing power from being abused. Everyone knows on the contrary that men in authority-be they emperors, ministers, governors, or police officers-are always, simply from the possession of power, more liable to be demoralized, that is, to subordinate public interests to their personal aims than those who have not the power to do so. Indeed, it could not be otherwise.
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  2. R.C. Sproul _ The Holiness of God

    Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority."
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  3. Roger Zelazny _ Creatures of Light and

    What difference does it make whether you slay him or Horus slays him? He will be just as dead either way." Wakim pauses, apparently considering the matter, as if for the first time. "This thing is mission, not his." he says at length. "He will be just as dead, either way," Vramin repeats. "But not by my hand." "True. But I fail to see the distinction." "So do I, for that matter. But it is who have been charged with the task." "Perhaps Horus has also." "But not by master." "Why should you have a master, Wakim? Why are you not your own man?" Wakim rubs his forehead. "I-do not-really know…. But I must do as I am told.
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  4. Roger Zelazny _ Doorways in the Sand

    Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to do anything I cannot be stopped from doing. Which sometimes entails not getting caught at it. This is not quite so bad as it sounds, as I am a decent, civilized, likable guy. So, shading my eyes against the blue and fiery afternoon, I began searching for ways to convince the authorities of this. Lying, I decided, was probably best.
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  5. Noam Chomsky

    Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual material gain, which is accepted as legitimate, even praiseworthy, on the grounds that private vices yield public benefits in the classic formulation
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  6. Cormac McCarthy _ All the Pretty Horses

    The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.
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  7. Joseph Heller _ Catch-22

    -You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!
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