Quotes About Authority

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.

If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

Who to himself is law no law doth need,Offends no law, and is a king indeed.

There is no danger to a man, that knows What life and death is: there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge; neither is it lawful That he should stoop to any other law.

He was a father in those happy and balmy days for fathers, when they and their wishes were immediately obeyed, when they were the ostensible focal point of the family's existence and their commands were never ignored.

Juchniewicz silenced Cogan with a communiqué of unusual clarity: "Higher authority wants a mean fucker in the job.

You may fire when you are ready, Gridley.

Discipleship to Jesus was not like discipleship to a Jewish rabbi. The rabbis bound their disciples not to themselves but to the Torah; Jesus bound his disciples to himself. The rabbis offered something outside of themselves; Jesus offered himself alone.

The heart of the Pauline proclamation is the Lordship of Christ (2 Cor. 4:5).

Evangelists are preachers who carry on the missionary task of preaching the gospel but without the authority of the apostles. The term denotes a function rather than an office.

The purpose of the passages is to argue that Paul enjoys the same apostolic authority as those who were apostles before him (Gal. 1:17), because he, like them, received his commission and his gospel directly from the Lord.

An apostle has the primary function of being a delegate of the risen Christ, going as his representative and in his authority. This idea of an authoritative representative derives from the Jewish institution of šelû?îm or authorized messengers representing a person or a group of persons. "A man's representative (š?lî??) is to be considered as the man himself.

Cullmann interprets the binding of Satan by his quaint idiom that he is bound, but with a long rope.42 Satan is not powerless, but his power has been broken.

The law's made to take care o' raskills.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

The legislative branch writes laws, the head of the executive branch takes care that the laws are faithfully executed, at which point the judiciary is perpetually poised to scrutinize the content and application of the laws. Which makes the judiciary the epicenter of constitutional government.

Coarseness occurs in a land where platitude inflames this sense of entitlement to more of almost everything, but less of manners and taste, with their irritating intimations of authority and hierarchy.

Speaking for George Will, on whose thinking I am world's foremost authority, I say: not necessarily. The heavy hitters do have heavy responsibilities.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Boot camp was . . . being treated like a criminal. It was like I had broken a law by joining the Marines and had been sent to reform school.