Quotes About Authority

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low.

He [Oliver Cromwell] said: "I see there is a people risen and come up that I cannot win either with gifts, honors, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can."

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

The technocrats saw expertise as the only measure of a person.

The pursuit of universal rights requires more than speeches. It requires power.

The argument for expertise as the basis for political authority depends on the experts' success at managing both their small niche and society as a whole.

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.

It mattered a great deal who occupied your country. The

Machiavelli wrote, "The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms. You cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow." This is a better definition of realism than the realists have given us.

The . . . argument of the expert, that the man who is trained should be the man who is trusted, would be absolutely unanswerable if it were really true that the man who studied a thing and practiced it every day went on seeing more and more of its significance. But he does not. He goes on seeing less and less of its significance

No, it's human, Curran said. That's the problem. People, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think, you have no responsibility. You're just following orders. Doing as your told.

Being an innkeeper meant walking a fine line between courtesy and tyranny.

You seem to be under the impression that I work for you and you can give me orders. Let me fix that." I hung up.

BD: It gets better. Ted Moynohan at this point is in charge of the Atlanta Chapter. DA: That fuckhead again. The gift that keeps on giving. I still don't understand how he got to be the Knight-Protector. If that man was in charge of nothing except his own dick, sooner or later he'd suspect it of presenting a danger to humanity.

In my experience, Connor acted as if the word no meant nothing unless he was the one saying it.

Thomas Hobbes called. He wants his thesis back.

never go into the Council room without a plan. You have to give them a range of possibilities, but if they discuss them too much, they'll never make a decision. Steer them toward the right choice and don't let them derail the train.

I respect your right to differ, but that doesn't change reality. I cannot have people thrown through windows willy-nilly in my county.

Six feet two inches tall and built like he could punch through solid walls and dodge a bullet at the same time, Jim projected a concentrated promise to kick your ass. It emanated from him like heat from a sidewalk. He never actually threatened you, but when he entered a room full of hard cases, bigger men backed off, because when he looked at them, they heard their bones breaking.

The Scourge of Mexico and the most terrifying Prime in Houston unhinged his manly jaws and said the only thing he could, "Yes, Mother.

You dare to wrestle with my mind? I'm the Plaguebringer. Gods flee when they hear me coming." "If my hands weren't busy, I'd clap for you.

Kdybych nazvala rytíÃ…â"¢e Ochránce zkurvysynem v jeho vlastní kanceláÃ…â"¢i, neobeÅ¡lo by se to bez následk?.

Are we going to school today?" "No. "Great. Then I'm going to go outside and see if I can get a gun. Since my own family won't let me have one, I'll have to beg strangers." - Leon & Penelope