Quotes About Authority

I am the rightful khan of the nation. I am the gur-khan. My word is iron and my word is law.

The Senate are simply men, and men rarely do what is right. Most of the time, they do what they are persuaded, or ordered, or frightened into doing.

A golden bribe can change hands at voting, but the true value in Rome is influence and favor.

The great lie of cities is that we are all too weak to stand against those who oppress us. Al I have done is see through that lie. I always fight, Kachiun. Kings and shahs depend on people remaining sheep, too afraid to rise up. All I ever did was realize I can be a wolf to them.

A power is seductive

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave!

The most dangerous people in the world are those with a grain of knowledge who promote themselves as authorities or authority figures. They only proceed to give half truthful, half right answers and in the end we all lose because of them.

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.

While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact, and explicitly self-institute (????-?????????). In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies attribute their imaginaries to some extra-social authority (i.e. God, ancestors, historical necessity)

It began to seem that the generals had got us into something they had no business doing.

[Of Servius Galba:] He seemed more important than a private citizen while he was a private citizen, and in the opinion of all he was capable of rule—if he had not ruled.

[Of Petronius:] Nero… looked up to him as a decisive authority in matters of taste.

The gods are on the side of the stronger.

Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges. (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.)

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.

The Bible is thought of as authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything. We do not mean that it speaks of football games, of atoms, etc., directly, but we do mean that it speaks of everything either directly or by implication.

We are the children of a king and have in our possession the key to our Father's storehouse. All its treasures are ours to use at any moment. —Eva von Tiele-Winckler

Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

The real test of whether Scripture or tradition is our fundamental authority lies in our willingness to test those preunderstandings by further study of the Scripture, examining its teachings again in a literary-historical manner.

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

Stand by your bed and salute me.