Quotes About Authority

Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare

Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

Culture means control over nature.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

A lion does not become king of the jungle hunting mice.

The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.

The nature of the kingdom must make you a God-carrier

Let your teaching reveal the nature of the kingdom of God

The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.