Quotes About Authority

It's better to obey God rather than men.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man

I would love to employ a man, but how can I possibly give a man dictation from the bath?

The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others.

If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.

People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.

Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.