Quotes About Authority

Go to any hospital, you'll find wards that are run by senior nurses with matrons. The point is do they have the power, do they have the responsibility inside the hospital?

Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule.

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

The existing governments of the world are the consequence of disobedience to the commands of God. But Christ came to bring men back to obedience by a new and living way.

What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.

God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.

Those who know the least obey the best.

The laws imposed by Brussels damage Italian artisans, traders, pensioners, but hey, Europe is asking, so we have to obey. Come on, if Europe asks me to throw myself in a well, I'm not going to do that just because Europe is asking me to, am I?

Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

The best way to put the federal bureaucracy back on a leash is to make it obey the laws the people write.

I would not like a king who could obey.

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

I was an attorney general. That was - that matters to me, and if you won't obey your own rules, there's no reason to think you'll obey any others.

We will always obey the law. We will follow the rule of law.

Zidane is a respectful person, he knows what he wants and we are there to obey and to the best we can. He has his sense of humor, but in the training sessions we must be serious.

It's hard for people who obey and respect the law to keep their heads from exploding in the face of affronts to common sense and the rule of law.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

However much we might sympathize or agree with EPA's policy objectives, EPA may act only within the boundaries of its statutory authority.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?