Quotes About Authority

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.

Our future is entirely within our own control. It is not at the mercy of any capricious or uncertain external power.

Our tendency today is to assume that we can eliminate the authority of husband over wife and yet retain the authority of husband-wife over the children. The Bible is more realistic about marriage than modern man, for the truth is that in disobeying the one hierarchy we destroy the other.

Unless you and I strive to obey the Lord in our homes, we will create a spiritually poisonous atmosphere that will infect our children with disrespect for authority—both ours and God's. Pay close attention to this principle: we reap what we sow. Our disobedience today may become our children's rebellion tomorrow.

Satan is the prince of this world, and he definitely influences what is broadcast each day.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

That this is the quest; but that it has never been attained; but that Science has acted, ruled, pronounced, and condemned as if it had been attained.

In many things I defer more to the authority of my grandfather whose political sagacity appears to have been the most striking characteristic of his life. He saw no cessation of war, still less much perfectibility while man is constituted as he has been known to be since the world began. And I think with him.

So too the growth of modern science depended on the premise of the individual's ability to judge evidence and argument for himself, free from the authority— though not the argument and evidence—of tradition.

The single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it... Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor.

It takes 35 million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

Gentlemen, bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

It's like the craziest patient at the insane asylum running the place because he's the most "qualified."

...the devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despot's dread of a newspaper that laughs.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.

But the truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it.

In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority. Or whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonise.