Quotes About Authority

Altering the rules of succession and coups d'état is all fun and games until the crown actually hits the hairline. Then somebody's gonna get hurt.

You'll get a fair trial by court martial, and you'll be shot immediately afterwards. The day after tomorrow we shall probably start court-martialling traitors in batches of twenty.

God cannot honor anything, no matter its degree of sincerity, if it is contrary to His Word.

Yeah, we taught him a lesson," the Texan said, his voice fading in and out with the wind. "These goddamn Indians got to learn whose property this is!

Is biblical headship synonymous with taking control over someone else and forcing her to comply when she resists? And, does biblical submission require a wife to always do what her husband says? Does it mean she has no choices of her own or can't ever say no without being labeled as rebellious or ungodly?

When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom.

A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless.

If we cannot speak with confidence about biblical authority, what ground have we for challenging the reigning plausibility structure?

bureaucracy is the rule of nobody and is therefore experienced as tyranny.

God's kingship is present in the church, but it must be insisted that it is not the property of the church. It

the authority of Jesus is ultimate, the

the Spirit himself is sovereign over the mission, the church can only be the attentive servant. In

the idea of `orthodoxy' or a `state church' is not a good way of looking at Judaism before 70.

Stalin's dethronement meant not only the collapse of one authority, but that of a whole institution.

Marxism under Stalin cannot be defined by any collection of statements, ideas, or concepts: it was not a question of propositions as such but of the fact that there existed an all-powerful authority competent to declare at any given moment what Marxism was and what it was not.

like all over-thrown Communist leaders he became a democrat as soon as he was ousted from power.

You know Kim Jong Un, the evil dictator of North Korea? Apparently, a guy in his inner circle used his ashtray while smoking and Kim Jong Un had him executed. I remember the same thing happened when a guy used Martha Stewart's personal lemon zester.

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.

We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.

What is written with a sword cannot be erased.

It makes perfect political sense. We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.

And if you tell him you saw me smoking, I will banish you to the lowest circle of hell. Which I've never been there, but if even half of what I hear is true it's almost as bad as Brooklyn." Eliot

it was so easy to ignore people when you understood how little power they really had over you—

Janet was in charge of relations with foreign powers—Quentin called her Fillory Clinton.