Quotes About Authority

It's not worth it trying to push back because they hold all the cards. They've got paid lawyers and regulators with no personal financial stake in this building like we do. They can sit at their desks and tell us what we can and can't do, and they can drag this out for years or until we're both bankrupt.

justifying their positions in the name of God, men silence God.

Morgan laughed. 'Captain Grenville doesn't know the Mary Rose, though at least he's a seaman, unlike some of the captains. Most are knighted gentlemen, you see, to put us in awe.' Like Sir Franklin with the soldiers, I thought

Up! Up into man-thing nest! Up to their streets and their cellars! Up to their granaries and their stockyards! Up to their homes and their temples! All-all belongs to Rictus! All-all belongs to Vecteek!

Nie rozumiesz, bo nie wiesz jak wielka jest niszcz?ca moc w?adzy. Nadal wierzysz, ?e mo?na wszystko rozwi?za? dzi?ki logice, ?e ludzie pos?uchaj? g?osu rozs?dku, bo przecie? w gruncie rzeczy w obliczu Boga wszyscy jeste?my równi.

Interesting … Still, these Huguenot gatherings must be curtailed somehow. Calvin does not rule here." "Then do it gently. Calvin does not rule here, and neither should the cardinal.

She demands more than she ever gives and rarely shows any gratitude. I hope you're prepared. The only thing she hates more than being told what to do is being told what she should not do.

it has the three traits that make people love their work: impact, creativity, and control.

If your specialty is new—as mine is—and they can't therefore find experts with an opinion on it either way, you're going to have a real hard time keeping your position, as there's no one out there to validate your stature.

Richard II's famous lament: "I live with bread like you, feel want, / Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, / How can you say to me, I am a king?"18

Just because you cannot avoid this tool altogether doesn't mean you have to cede all authority over its role in your mental landscape

Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head].

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.

Si nous partons du postulat que les hommes sont à éduquer, nous pouvons aussi bien dire que, manquant d'éducation, voire d'humanisme, il conviendrait de ne pas leur laisser les rênes du commandement de la chose publique.

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

One with the law is a majority.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

It is our theory that the people own the government, not that the government should own the people.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Most of these super-sovereigns feel that God can comment if he wants to, but God must avoid getting loud. While God is welcome to his opinions, he is only one voice, and he doesn't get extra points just for being God. The unstudied opinionated are prone to say, even to God, "Yes, but here's what I think." In such a world, classic apologetics has lost much of its force.

In a religion where logic alone rules, there is no power.

Because the secular culture didn't want a Lord, preaching quit saying, "Thus saith the Lord.

When it comes to adding authority to the sermon, the Bible is the most powerful way to comment on what the Bible has to say.

Every kind of power has its own boundaries, Etienne. That is you know its strength and its form.