Examples of using "Obrigkeit" in a sentence and their english translations:
The students revolted against authority.
- Tom thinks that schools should teach children to obey authority.
- Tom thinks schools should teach children to obey authority.
According to your remark, the state appears more or less as a synonym of a detached authority, connected with the so-called elites in politics, media, economy and science, in whom one cannot believe and which somehow stay on the way of the individual. If this kind of thought gets established, it will lead us to absolute misery.