Quotes About Authority

if there is no God, everything is lawful

The fact is, it's good to be free. No one ever marches against freedom, chanting, "Down with liberty! Back to bondage! I want to do only what the government tells me to do!

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." —ANDY STANLEY

Power comes not from power everywhere, but from knowing where to put it on.

And when they finally demanded that I had to stop keeping score and that I needed to play every future contest as an exhibition, I casually made the kind of statement sixteen-year-olds should not make to forty-six-year-old Midwestern housewives: "Why are you telling me how to do my job?" I asked. "It's not like I show up in your kitchen and tell you when to bake cookies.

machine powering the modern world is too complicated for the average person to fix or calibrate. And they know this. This is what makes an IT guy different from you. He might make less money, he might have less social prestige, and people might look at him in the cafeteria like he's a morlock — but he can act however he wants. He can be nice, but only if he feels like it. He can ignore the company dress code. He can lie for

Tall people are naturally confident. History has proven this - Alexander the Great, Wilt Chamberlain, Gisele.

The first moment someone calls for a revolution is usually the last moment I take them seriously.

The Net was built without a central command authority. That means that nobody owns it, nobody runs it, nobody has the power to kick anybody off for good. There isn't even a master switch that can shut it down in case of emergency. "It's the closest thing to true anarchy that ever existed

Once people decide they want you to do something, they don't really care what your qualifications are.

I would never directly contradict anything Neil deGrasse Tyson says, because—compared to Neil deGrasse Tyson—my skull is a bag of hammers.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. –GEORGE WASHINGTON

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

Kids, she says. When they're little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it's just the opposite. After that, you're either a liar or a fool or a villain.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

It sounds as if you'd like to be God.

She'd never trusted her own natural impulses and instincts Among her greatest fears was the possibility that she might never discover and develop her deepest talents and intuitions. Her special gifts. Her life would be wasted in pursuing the goals set for her by other people. Instead, she wanted to reclaim a power and authority - a primitive, irresistible force - that transcended gender roles. She dreamed of wielding a raw magic that predated civilization itself.

I don't ex­pect you to un­der­stand," Adam says. "You're still the eight-?year-?old sit­ting in school, sit­ting in church, be­liev­ing ev­ery­thing you're told. You re­mem­ber pic­tures in books. They planned how you'd live your whole life. You're still asleep.

Your being born make your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan just because you want something better.

We, each of us, can take control of the world.

If you were my student, I'd tell you to shift as needed between the three POVs. Not constantly, but as appropriate to control authority, intimacy, and pace.