Quotes About Authority

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

Some people have come to admire Stephen Harper's style because he's standing at the top of the pyramid - that's not leadership to me.

A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

When dealing with a subject who is dead, you have this feeling of being God. You know who they're going to marry, when they're going to die. It's strange to feel so omniscient.

I have a credibility on the subject that most people don't.

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.

IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.

We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us.

In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm... has no share in the sovereignty.

In order to continue in office, any government (not simply a 'democratic' government) must have the support of the majority of its subjects. This support, it must be noted, need not be active enthusiasm; it may well be passive resignation as if to an inevitable law of nature.

The journalist cannot create his subjects any more than the analyst can create his patients.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.

We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family.

Entire civilisation stands on submission and obedience of mother.

I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience.

And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That's how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living.