Quotes About Authority

Preacher, keep your knees on the ground & your eyes on the throne.

Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of God's power to us.

He who fears God fears no man.

An old Scot used to say to us, 'If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

We spend so much time urging children to trust us to help them with their problems. Yet we don't even have the courage to let them read books in which those problems are named for what they are, or to let them freely talk about those problems. So the question I have is this: Why should children trust us? That's the part that I think the censors have not thought through carefully.

The child expects to look up to the parent, to be instructed by the parent, indeed to be commanded by the parent. If the parent instead serves the child, then that relationship falls out of its natural balance. You may not earn your child's love at all—and the

What does it mean to assert your authority as a parent? It doesn't necessarily mean being a tough disciplinarian. Among other things, it means ensuring that the parent-child relationship takes priority over the relationships between the child and her or his same-age peers.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Ministri, deputati, professori, artisti, finanzieri, industriali, quella che si suole chiamare classe dirigente. E che cosa dirigeva in concreto, effettivamente? Una ragnatela nel vuoto, la propria labile ragnatela. Anche se di fili d'oro.

Il potere è sempre altrove. Il potere non è nel consiglio comunale di Palermo, il potere non è nel Parlamento della Repubblica: il potere è altrove.

La sicurezza del potere si fonda sull'insicurezza dei cittadini.

The group was led by a very thin man whom the sheep didn't know. They looked hard at him. The leader of the flock is always important.

I am sure it would be very pleasant and healthy for human beings to have no authority whatever. They would have to think for themselves, instead of always being told what to do and think by advertisements, cinemas, policemen, and parliaments.

Hayvanlar?n kurumlara al?nmad???n? söylediÄŸini san?yordum. K?rk tane polis köpeÄŸi herhalde kesinlikle hayvand?r öyle deÄŸil mi?" "Polis köpekler asl?nda düzgün konuÅŸan hayvanlar deÄŸildir. Polis köpekleri, hayvan zihniyetinden yoksun sapk?n hayvanlard?r. Polisler insan m? ki polis köpekleri hayvan olsun?

Wer sich peitschen läßt, verdient, gepeitscht zu werden. Who lets itself whip, earned to be whipped.

You mean you are now my slave without illusions, and for that reason you shall feel the weight of my foot without mercy.

Whoever was in her presence trembled before her, and the more she made herself feared, the more it delighted her, the more it seemed to make her feel happy.

If I had been armed with a feminist understanding that no girl deserves to be called a slut, perhaps I would have fought back by reporting the harassment to my school's headmistress or another school authority, or at least I might have had the strength to tell of the name-callers on my own. But at the time, all I knew was that if I avoided eye contact, it was a hell of a lot easier to get through my days.

Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.

Wissen Sie, weshalb man zwischen uns Verurteilten eine Zelle unbelegt lässt? Damit wir kein Komplott schmieden, uns selbst abzumurksen. Das würde gegen das Gesetz verstoßen [...]. Ein sehr schwerwiegender Verstoß, allerdings! In diesem Fürstentum wird es als niederträchtige Handlungsweise erachtet, den Versuch zu unternehmen, das Exekutionskommando auszutricksen.

Then there was the issue of what the child would call us. ... I was told that no matter what I decreed, the baby would call me whatever she called me. I thought that was nonsense.