Quotes About Authority

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

Therefore, Calvin ascribes a tremendous value to the official proclamation of the word, but he does not make the officeholder the "owner" of the word and Spirit.

Thou great democratic God!… who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne!

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

You can't understand command till you've had it. It's the loneliest, most oppressive job in the whole world. It's a nightmare, unless you're an ox. You're forever teetering along a tiny path of correct decisions and good luck that meanders through an infinite gloom of possible mistakes.

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

The "apostolic church" is a poor church. It has no marvelous new revelations, no knowledge of higher worlds, no possibility of proving its faith by reason. It lives from the witness of a few men who were neither religious geniuses, nor ethical heroes, nor original thinkers. The only authority for the unverifiable things they said was that Jesus Christ had sent them and that they were witnesses of His resurrection.

God's Word witnesses to the fact that the Holy Spirit is very God, or to be more exact, God the Holy Spirit witnesses to Himself in the words of Scripture, and nowhere else.

the closer one is to a source of power, the quieter it gets. Authority and money surround themselves with silence, and one can measure the reach of someone's influence by the thickness of the hush enveloping them.

Authority and money surround themselves with silence, and one can measure the reach of someone's influence by the thickness of the hush enveloping them.

During my tests and interviews at Bevel Investments I first learned something I had the chance to corroborate many times throughout my life: the closer one is to a source of power, the quieter it gets. Authority and money surround themselves with silence, and one can measure the reach of someone's influence by the thickness of the hush enveloping them.

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

They made it plain to everyone, however, and above all to the king himself, that although he had plenty of troops, he did not have many men.

En el camino me resultaba sospechoso que arriba, en el cielo, hubiera algo hermoso y en la tierra, abajo, no hubiera ninguna ley que prohibiese mirar a lo alto.

Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.

It is easier to command a lapdog or a mule for a whole day than one's own fate for half-an-hour.

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

And you are going to close the gates, because I told you to close the gates.

He had nothing against cops, per se—he had a cousin on the force in Philly, after all—but he never liked dealing with them directly

The more power you give your child in any discipline process, the more likely he will be to be able to make it work positively for himself.