Quotes About Authority

It's an odd thing when your children start telling you what to do." "I

Mama has always been in charge of the world, and she's determined not to abdicate now.

Taking legislative authority away from the federal government doesn't necessarily mean freer individuals. It might just mean granting vastly more authority to the states--which already have far broader police powers than most of us would care to admit.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

The Lord hadn't forgotten Elizabeth, nor had he tarried in answering her prayer without a good purpose. He chose her—an older woman with an unproven womb—in order to display his power, his might, his authority. And he blessed her to honor her faithfulness. The truth is, God's strength is fully revealed when our strength is depleted.

Mr. Beeston took a step forward and cleared his throat in his I-know-you-work-for-Neptune-but-I'm-clearly-the-most-important-person-here kind of way.

Mr. Beeston gave Dad one of his I'm-very-important-and-I-know-a-lot-more-than-you looks.

Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Not to be ministers' wives, but to be ministers.

We've been down the road of your hasty exits too many times, Mrs. Danvers. You married your master, and you married a sadist--of your own free will. You might remember that when you're tempted to walk out in a huff, defy my orders, and behave like a selfish brat. You got that?

I would have thought even you could understand such a simple sentence, Father. Shall I repeat it in Latin for you?

A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.

Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.

When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Stubbornness and an obstinate disobedience must be mastered with blows.

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day, but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.

He that will have his son have a respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

Maybe knowledge is power, but it ain't nearly as as satisfying as punching some smart ass in the chops.

You're gonna sit down. You're gonna shut up. And by the grace of God Almighty, I ain't gonna kill you.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.