Quotes About Authority

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

On pain of death, no person be so bold.

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

To die at the command of another is to die twice.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt commends "the reading of the Bible" to my brother. The way they got these kids to die. Commends.

The authority of beauty is a very irrational thing.

Meu pai era dono de botequim, porém insistia que era preciso escolher as palavras com precisão, e nisso sou como ele. As palavras têm significados — meu pai só estudou até a sétima série, mas até ele sabia disso. Atrás do balcão ele guardava duas coisas pra resolver discussões entre seus clientes: um porrete e um dicionário.

Human conduct can be regulated, and it will be regulated! The

Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

Change came from below, as it usually does, rather than being imposed from above.

culture? As Lesslie Newbigin poses the question, "Can one who goes the way of the Cross sit in the seat of Pilate when it falls vacant?

El poder consigue todo, menos lo más importante: no puede controlar el amor.

When the church joined with the state, it tended to wield power rather than dispense grace.

When the church has occasion to set the rules for all society, it often veers toward the extremism

the Bible gives no direct advice for citizens of a democracy. Paul and Peter urged their readers to submit to authorities and honor the king, but in a democracy we the citizens are the "king.

who are we to sit in judgment of God's moral government of the universe?

El hecho de que el amor no opera bajo las reglas del poder ayudaría a explicar por qué a veces parece como si Dios sintiera timidez en cuanto a utilizar su propio poder.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to communicate the message of grace from the corridors of power.

The church works best as a force of resistance, a counterbalance to the consuming power of the state.