The vanities of life:pleasure, possession, position and power.

The proud cannot accept the authority of God giving direction to their lives. (See Helaman 12:6.) They pit their perceptions of truth against God’s great knowledge, their abilities versus God’s priesthood power, and their accomplishments against His mighty works.

He who neglects the true Sovereign God neglects his own true authority and freedom!

Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate.

When you get to the peak, remember the valley exists.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

...Legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice--that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today. And third, the authority has to be fair. It can't treat one group differently from another.

The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.

Those in true spiritual authority have neither the desire nor the need to control anyone, either directly or subversively.

Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem. It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced — in a word, insane.