Quotes About Authority

We are eating like adults. Kids have to eat when and what they're told. We get to eat when and what we want. Because we're adults.

It's different with a parent, isn't it? They have to consider constantly whether to say yes or no, now or later. They have to discipline and enforce as well as love and tend. You'll only have to love, and they'll soak all that up like sponges.

Excuse me, but I'm very tired of being interrupted and ordered around and spoken to like a recalicitrant eight-year-old. Then don't behave like one, Brian suggested.

Mr. Tarmack,if you try to put a jockey on this horse, I'll have you up on charges.In fact,I'm damn well having you up on charges regardless.

A leader's who everybody looks to for answers, even when there aren't any. Who everyone blames when things go wrong. A leader's the one who has to do the dirty work, even if it's the damn dishes.

Cam gave him a halfhearted boot on the top of his head with the heel of one hand. Why don't you shut up until I say what I have to say? The painless smack and impatient order were more comforting to Seth than a thousand promises.

get you to your room." "No, my office

People like to say they've given somebody a choice when what they're really saying is 'do this my way.

With great power comes great responsibility

official investigation.

Connor Sean Michael O'Dwyer! Get your arse down here

teacher and the guard." He nodded.

A leader will be honored, but a leader carries the burden for us all.

A leader's who everybody looks to for answers, even when there aren't any. Who everyone blames when things go wrong.

People like to say they've given somebody a choice when what they're really saying is 'do this my way'.

It's praise and punish. It's how they get you to do what they want, how they train you.

And I have a mighty and fatally accurate bitch slap

She sighed and put on a good sulk. Actually, she had no desire to get her nose pierced but she did want a third piercing in her left earlobe. Working down to it, or over to it, from the nose was good strategy. The kind, she thought, her father would appreciate if he knew about it. It's my body. Not until you're eighteen, it's not. Until that happy day, it's mine. Go nag your brother. I can't. I'm not speaking to him. She rolled onto her back on her father's

As pessoas que estão preparadas para usar a violência e o homicídio como instrumentos normais de política nunca podem sentir-se livres do medo de que outros possam recorrer aos mesmos instrumentos contra eles.

Ruling groups of every type...whose power is dwindling seldom vacate the field without a fight even if the chances of maintaining their power and rule may be nil. The weaker they are...the crasser, the more reckless and unrealistic...are the measures likely to be with which they seek to preserve their position.

Ho sempre considerato la sfera del diritto e quella della politica come due facce della stessa medaglia. Il mondo delle regole e il mondo del potere: il potere che crea le regole, le regole che trasformano il potere di fatto in un potere di diritto.

In the Gospels—Jesus is the prophet to his people. In Acts and the Epistles—Jesus is the priest for his people. In the book of Revelation—Jesus is the King over his people.

Andy Stanley put it well: "My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school science teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.

when truth goes, the authority of the gospel is undermined, because the gospel tells us all about the Truth.