Quotes About Authority

I have spent enough time around Puritans in general, and Boston Puritans in particular, to know what these people will tell her: lock up the library! Or

if any of them notice you and, for some reason, object to your little plan, whatever the fuck it is, then by all means kill them. And if that doesn't work, please, by all means, kill yourself, because you'll probably do a neater job of it than the Fascists will.

Government is the perfect portrayer of the accuracy of the axiom that if you lie big enough, long enough, the lie becomes the "truth.

Understand that in order for organized religion to succeed, it has to make people believe they need it. In order for people to put faith in something else, they must first lose faith in themselves. So the first task of organized religion is to make you lose faith in yourself. The second task is to make you see that it has the answers you do not. And the third and most important task is to make you accept its answers without question.

What is needed is a growth in consciousness, not a growth of government.

Absolute Power demands absolutely nothing.

The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.

I don't really need to explain this to Aaron. He's been demoted

Why" is a nasty little Protestant word, you follow? Catholics, now, say, "Credo, I Believe," to whatever the Pope says. If you want to ask "Why?" go ask the Anglican vicar to instruct you in unbelief and he will let you "Why-why-why?" to your heart's content.

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.

Objective truths of science are not founded in belief systems. They are not established by the authority of leaders or the power of persuasion. Nor are they learned from repetition or gleaned from magical thinking. To deny objective truths is to be scientifically illiterate, not to be ideologically principled.

You know it's true… Every disaster movie begins with a scientist being ignored.

the stated authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Objective truths of science are not founded in belief systems. They are not established by the authority of leaders or the power of persuasion. Nor are they learned from repetition or gleaned from magical thinking. To deny objective truths is to be scientifically illiterate, not to be ideologically principled. After all that, you'd think only one definition for truth should exist in this world, but no.

As the saying goes, we spend the first years of children's lives teaching them to talk and walk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.

I was no longer in the game to meet women; I was in the game to lead men.

Moses never called for a committee when the Egyptians were breathing down his neck.

Authority does not increase with volume. We

Believers have both the authority to do God's will because of their position in Christ, and the power to do God's will as long as they walk by the Spirit.

There are always a few sad souls who want to be king.

Before we received Christ, we were slaves to sin. But because of Christ's work on the cross, sin's power over us has been broken. Satan has no right of ownership or authority over us. He is a defeated foe, but he is committed to keeping us from realizing that. He knows he can block your effectiveness as a Christian if he can deceive you into believing that you are nothing but a product of your past, subject to sin, prone to failure, and controlled by your habits.

The church Body cannot rise above its leadership. Additionally

administration lead to interpersonal problems and spiritual bondage.