Quotes About Authority

Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

I want to be Ruler of the Exumas. I like the sound of it. I want to become Kurtz and live like in 'Lord of the Flies.'

Every so often you might have an outburst in the gallery. That's one of the most exciting things that happen because then you can say, 'Unless there's order we will call the Sergeant at Arms.' And that sounds really scary.

The Court's legitimacy arises from the source of its authority - which is, of course, the Constitution - and is best preserved by adhering to decision methods that neither expand nor contract but legitimize the power of judicial review.

I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here?

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products - fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source for the secondary market of those products. Google is the authority for information about facts, but they're relatively undifferentiated.

International legitimacy is a fundamental source of power for Israel nowadays.

As director of CIA, I was responsible for everything done in the agency's name, and it didn't matter whether that was done by an agency employee, a government contractor, a liaison service on our behalf, or a source on our behalf.

We really should stop taking historical novelists seriously as historians. The idea that they have authority is ludicrous. They are very good at imagining character: that's why the novels sell. They have no authority when it comes to the handling of historical sources. Full stop.

Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?

Not only Southern children - but adults as well - use the preface ma'am or sir when speaking to someone older or in authority.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.

It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God.

A country isn't sovereign if we can't control who comes in and who's allowed to come in.

A parliamentary democracy that has developed its delicate balances over hundreds of years will not give up its sovereign rights.

Parliament alone is sovereign.